16 ‘O hold, O hold,’ cries bold Robin, ‘I see you be stout men; Let me blow one blast on my bugle-horn, Then I’le fight with you again.’ 17 ‘That bargain’s to make, bold Robin Hood, Therefore we it deny; Though a blast upon thy bugle-horn Cannot make us fight nor fly. 18 ‘Therefore fall on, or else be gone, And yield to us the day: It shall never be said that we were afraid Of thee, nor thy yeomen gay.’ 19 ‘If that be so,’ cries bold Robin, ‘Let me but know your names, And in the forest of merry Sheerwood I shall extol your fames.’ 20 ‘And with our names,’ one of them said, ‘What hast thou here to do? Except that you will fight it out, Our names thou shalt not know.’ 21 ‘We will fight no more,’ sayes bold Robin, ‘You be men of valour stout; Come and go with me to Nottingham, And there we will fight it out. 22 ‘With a but of sack we will bang it out, To see who wins the day; And for the cost, make you no doubt I have gold and money to pay 23 ‘And ever after, so long as we live, We all will brethren be; For I love those men with heart and hand That will fight, and never flee.’ 24 So away they went to Nottingham, With sack to make amends; For three dayes space they wine did chase, And drank themselves good friends. * * * * * #a.# Robin Hood’s Delight, or, A merry combat fought between Robin Hood, Little John and Will Scarelock and three stout Keepers in Sheerwood Forrest. Robin was valiant and stout, so was Scarelock and John, in the field, But these keepers stout did give them the rout, and made them all for to yield; But after the battel ended was, bold Robin did make them amends, For claret and sack they did not lack, so drank themselves good friends. To the tune of Robin Hood and Quene Katherine, or, Robin Hood and the Shepheard. London, Printed for John Andrews, at the White Lion, near Pye Corner. (1660.) #b#, #c#. _Title the same, without the verses_: Scarlet _for_ Scarelock. 1^2. #b#, yeomen. 1^3, 13^1. Scarlet. 2^1. it is. 2^3. And many. 4^3. was he: #c#, forresters _for_ keepers. 5^1. side. 5^2. #c#, forrests bils. 5^3. #c#, bold _wanting_. 7^1. #b#, bold Robin, Hood _wanting_: #c#, said Robin Hood. 7^2. #b#, it _wanting_: #c#, that _wanting_. 10^4. met. 11^3. do _wanting_. 11^4. #b.# wee’l. 16^1. #c.# thy hand cryes. 17^1. is. 19^3. #c.# in that. 19^4. #b.# I will. 20^3. thou wilt. 23^1. hereafter. #d.# _Title as in_ #b#, #c#, _except_: fought against. Printed for William Thackeray, at the Angel in Duck Lane. (1689.) 1^1. There’s. 1^2. yeomen. 1^3, 13^1. Scarlet. 2^3. And many.