Good Robin cry’d, Fy! out, for shame!

We’re sham’d for evermore.

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Altho good Robin would full fain

Of his wrong revenged be,

He smil’d to see his merry young men

Had gotten a taste of the tree.


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The History of Robin Hood and the Beggar: in two Parts. Part I: Shewing how Robin Hood, in attempting to rob a Beggar near Barnesdale, was shamefully defeated, and left for dead, till taken up by three of his men. Part II: How the beggar blinded two of his men with a bag of meal, who were sent to kill him or bring him back.