‘O I’m a bold merchantman, for London bound,

And I pray you, good sir, let us by.’

5

‘O no! O no!’ said bold Robin Hood,

‘O no such thing may be;

For I will gae in and plunder your ship,

And your fair bodies I’ll drown in the sea.’

6

O he has gone in and plundered their ship,

And holes in her bottom bored three;