8 ‘Get you home, get you home,’ said jolly Robin, ‘Get you home most speedily, And I will unto fair Nottingham go, For the sake of the squires all three.’ 9 Then bold Robin Hood for Nottingham goes, For Nottingham town goes he, O there did he meet with a poor beggar-man, He came creeping along the highway. 10 ‘What news, what news, thou old beggar-man? What news, come tell unto me:’ ‘O there is weeping and wailing in fair Nottingham, For the death of the squires all three.’ 11 This beggar-man had a coat on his back, ’Twas neither green, yellow, nor red; Bold Robin Hood thought ’twas no disgrace To be in a beggar-man’s stead. 12 ‘Come, pull off thy coat, you old beggar-man, And you shall put on mine; And forty good shillings I’ll give thee to boot, Besides brandy, good beer, ale and wine.’ 13 Bold Robin Hood then unto Nottingham came, Unto Nottingham town came he; O there did he meet with great master sheriff, And likewise the squires all three. 14 ‘One boon, one boon,’ says jolly Robin, ‘One boon I beg on my knee; That, as for the deaths of these three squires, Their hangman I may be.’ 15 ‘Soon granted, soon granted,’ says great master sheriff, ‘Soon granted unto thee; And you shall have all their gay cloathing, Aye, and all their white money.’ 16 ‘O I will have none of their gay cloathing, Nor none of their white money, But I’ll have three blasts on my bugle-horn, That their souls to heaven may flee.’ 17 Then Robin Hood mounted the gallows so high, Where he blew loud and shrill, Till an hundred and ten of Robin Hood’s men They came marching all down the green hill. 18 ‘Whose men are they all these?’ says great master sheriff, ‘Whose men are they? tell unto me:’ ‘O they are mine, but none of thine, And they’re come for the squires all three.’ 19 ‘O take them, O take them,’ says great master sheriff, ‘O take them along with thee; For there’s never a man in all Nottingham Can do the like of thee.’ * * * * * #A.# 1^3. 20[l :]. 5^2. _Only one of the_ i’s _is dotted in_ cliit: _Furnivall_. 6^3. said w^m. 9^2. _half a page wanting._ 10 _follows_ 12. 11^3. 300[d :]. 15^3, 18^1. 3. 17^2. or be me. 18^1. _half a page wanting._ #B. a.# 3^3. Knews. 4^1, 6^1, 11^1, 19^{1,2}, 25^1, 28^1. Oh. 8^2. and a down a. 12^1. chur. 15^1. Teen. 16^2. Where. 17^4. Itts. 24^4. For me. 28^1. are you. #b.# Robin Hood rescu’d the Widow’s three Sons from the Sheriff when going to be hanged. #c.# How Robin Hood rescued, etc., ... to be hanged. #b#, #c#. 2^1. Hood _wanting_. 2^2. a down down. 2^3. met with. 2^4. along the highway. 3^2. to me. 3^4. To-day are.