Robin Hood and the Shepheard: Shewing how Robin Hood, Little John and the Shepheard fought a sore combat. The Shepherd fought for twenty pound, And Robin for bottle and bag, But the Shepheard stout gave them the rout So sore they could not wag. The tune is Robin and Queen Katherine. London, Printed for John Andrews, at the White Lion, in Pie-Corner. (1660.) _Burden_: Down a down a down a down. 1^3. bold _for_ brave. 4^3. thou hast. 5^4. my wo. 8^1. amaze. 11^3. four till ten. 12^1. chiefest. 13^4. And then. 16^1. _wanting._ 19^3. cries _for_ saies. 19^4. hath beaten. 22^3. ile know saith. 22^4. flee. 25^1. doest. 26^1. _wanting._ 26^2. began. 26^4. And _wanting_: I will. 27^3. Shepheards. 27^4. I did never. #d.# _Title as in #a#, #b#._ Printed for William Thackeray, at the Angel in Duck Lane. (1689.) _Burden_: Down a down down. 1^3. bold _for_ brave. 2^3. he was. 4^3. hast thou, _as in_ #a#. 5^1. that _for_ which. 5^4. thy woe, _as in_ #a#. 6^1. Tut _wanting_. 7^1. bold _wanting_. 7^3. pound. 10^2. standest. 11^1. hard. 12^1. chiefest. 15^3. beagle. 16^1. Then said the Shepherd to bold Robin. 16^2. To that will I agree. 16^4. flee. 17^1. he set. 17^2. with might and main. 18^3. Little _wanting_. 19^3. bad cries. 21^2. shall never. 21^3. at thy. 22^4. flee. 24^3. thy _for_ thee. 26^1. Again the Shepherd laid on him. 26^2. began. 26^3. Hood _wanting_. 26^4. And _wanting_: I will. 27^4. I did never. 28^4. The like was never known. 136 ROBIN HOOD’S DELIGHT (ROBIN HOOD, JOHN, SCARLOCK AND THREE KEEPERS) #a.# Wood, 401, leaf 41 b. #b.# Garland of 1663, No 17. #c.# Garland of 1670, No 16. #d.# Pepys, II, 112, No 99. Ritson, Robin Hood, 1795, II, 116, from #a#, with changes. Evans, Old Ballads, 1777, 1784, I, 176. Robin Hood, Scarlock, and John, walking in Sherwood, are charged to stand by three of King Henry’s keepers. There is a fight from eight till two o’clock, in which the outlaws are at some disadvantage. Robin asks that he may blow his horn, then he will fight again. The keepers refuse; he must fall on or yield. Robin owns them to be stout fellows; he will not fight it out there with swords, but at Nottingham with sack. They go to Nottingham accordingly, and drink themselves good friends.