No maids have they forced against their will,

Nor with other mens wives have lain.

What have they done then ? said jolly Robìn,

Come tell me most speedily.

“Oh ! it is for killing the king’s fallow deer,

‘That’ [348] they are all condemned to die.” {367}

Get you home, get you home, said jolly Robìn,

Get you home most speedily,

And I will unto fair Nottingham go,

For the sake of the ’squires all three.