The stranger, in laughter, he cry’d;
Quoth bold Robin Hood, “Good faith, in the flood,
And floating along with the tide.
“I needs must acknowledge thou art a brave soul;
With thee I’ll no longer contend;
For needs must I say, thou hast got the day,
Our battel shall be at an end.”
Then unto the bank he did presently wade,
And pulld himself out by a thorn;
Which done, at the last, he blowd a loud blast