Quoth bold Robin Hood, and sturdily stood,

I’ll show you right Nottingham play.

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With that from his quiver an arrow he drew,

A broad arrow with a goose-wing:

The stranger reply’d, I’ll liquor thy hide,

If thou offerst to touch the string.

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Quoth bold Robin Hood, Thou dost prate like an ass,

For were I to bend but my bow,