It was by Mary free,

That he would neither eate nor drinke,

'Till the fryer he did see.

Robin Hood put on his harnesse good,

On his head a cap of steel,

Broad sword and buckler by his side,

And they became him weele.

He tooke his bow into his hand,

It was made of a trusty tree,

With a sheafe of arrowes at his belt,