13 When Robin put on the auld man’s hat, It was weary high in the crown; ‘By the hand of my body,’ quo Robin Hood, ‘I am lang whan I loot down.’ 14 Whan Robin put on the auld man’s cloak, There was mony a pock therein; A pock for meal, and a pock for maut, And a pock for groats and corn, And a little wee pockie that hung by his side That he put in his bugle-horn. 15 Sae Robin Hood’s [to] Nottinghame gane, Wi a linkie down and a day, And there he met wi the high sheriff, Coming riding alang the high way. 16 ‘O save you, O save you, high sheriff,’ he said, ‘And weel saved mote you be! And what will you gie to the silly auld man Your hangman for to be?’ 17 ‘Thirteen pence,’ the sheriff replied, ‘That is the hangman’s fee, But an the claiths of the three young men This day condemned to die.’ 18 ‘I never hanged a man in a’ my life, And intend not to begin; But ever I hang a man in my life, High sheriff, thou’s be the ane. 19 ‘But I have a horn in my pocket, I gat it frae Robin Hood, And gif I tak out my little horn, For thee it will no blaw gude.’ 20 ‘Blaw, blaw, bauld beggar,’ he said, ‘Blaw, and fear nae doubt; I wish you may gie sic a blast Till your eyne loup out.’ 21 Then Robin he gave a skip, And he skipped frae a stick till a stane; ‘By the hand of my body,’ quo the high sheriff, ‘You are a supple auld man.’ 22 Then Robin set his horn to his mouth, And he blew baith loud and shrill, Till sixty-four of bold Robin’s men Cam marching down the green hill. 23 ‘What men are these,’ quo the high sheriff, ‘That comes sae merrily?’ ‘They are my men,’ quo Robin Hood, ‘And they’ll pay a visit to thee.’ 24 They tack the gallows out of the glen, And they set it in a slap; They hanged the sheriff upon it, And his best men at his back. 25 They took the gallows out o the slap, And they set [it] back in the glen, And they hanged the sheriff upon it, Let the three young men gae hame. 141 ROBIN HOOD RESCUING WILL STUTLY #a.# Wood, 401, leaf 35 b. #b.# Garland of 1663, No 7. #c.# Garland of 1670, No 6. #d.# Pepys, II, 106, No 93. This ballad probably occurs in all the larger collections of broadsides. It was given in Old Ballads, 1723, I, 90. #a# is printed by Ritson, Robin Hood, 1795, II, 102. Evans, Old Ballads, 1777, 1784, I, 164, follows an Aldermary copy.