‘My name! my name I neer will tell,

Till both your names you have told to me.’

12

‘The one of us is bold Robin Hood,

And the other Little John so free:’

‘Now,’ says the pedlar, ‘it lays to my good will,

Whether my name I chuse to tell to thee.

13

‘I am Gamble Gold of the gay green woods,

And travelled far beyond the sea;