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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=126180" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Robin Hood and Little John</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Robin Hood was about twenty years old, <br>With a hey down down and a down<br>He happend to meet Little John,<br>A jolly brisk blade, right fit for the trade,<br>For he was a lusty young man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tho he was calld Little, his limbs they were large, <br>And his stature was seven foot high;<br>Where-ever he came, they quak'd at his name,<br>For soon he would make them to fly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How they came acquainted, I'll tell you in brief, <br>If you will but listen a while;<br>For this very jest, amongst all the rest,<br>I think it may cause you to smile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bold Robin Hood said to his jolly bowmen,<br>Pray tarry you here in this grove;<br>And see that you all observe well my call,<br>While thorough the forest I rove.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have had no sport for these fourteen long days, <br>Therefore now abroad will I go;<br>Now should I be beat, and cannot retreat,<br>My horn I will presently blow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then did he shake hands with his merry men all,<br>And bid them at present good b'w'ye;<br>Then, as near a brook his journey he took,<br>A stranger he chancd to espy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They happend to meet on a long narrow bridge,<br>And neither of them would give way;<br>Quoth bold Robin Hood, and sturdily stood,<br>I'll show you right Nottingham play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With that from his quiver an arrow he drew,<br>A broad arrow with a goose-wing:<br>The stranger reply'd, I'll liquor thy hide,<br>If thou offerst to touch the string.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Quoth bold Robin Hood, Thou dost prate like an ass, <br>For were I to bend but my bow,<br>I could send a dart quite thro thy proud heart,<br>Before thou couldst strike me one blow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thou talkst like a coward,' the stranger reply'd; <br>'Well armd with a long bow, you stand,<br>To shoot at my breast, while I, I protest,<br>Have nought but a staff in my hand.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The name of a coward,' quoth Robin, 'I scorn,<br>Wherefore my long bow I'll lay by;<br>And now, for thy sake, a staff I will take,<br>The truth of thy manhood to try.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Robin Hood stept to a thicket of trees,<br>And chose him a staff of ground-oak;<br>Now this being done, away he did run<br>To the stranger, and merrily spoke:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo! see my staff, it is lusty and tough,<br>Now here on the bridge we will play;<br>Whoever falls in, the other shall win<br>The battel, and so we'll away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'With all my whole heart,' the stranger reply'd; <br>'I scorn in the least to give out;'<br>This said, they fell to't without more dispute,<br>And their staffs they did flourish about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And first Robin he gave the stranger a bang,<br>So hard that it made his bones ring:<br>The stranger he said, This must be repaid,<br>I'll give you as good as you bring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So long as I'm able to handle my staff,<br>To die in your debt, friend, I scorn:<br>Then to it each goes, and followd their blows,<br>As if they had been threshing of corn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stranger gave Robin a crack on the crown,<br>Which caused the blood to appear;<br>Then Robin, enrag'd, more fiercely engag'd,<br>And followd his blows more severe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So thick and fast did he lay it on him,<br>With a passionate fury and ire,<br>At every stroke, he made him to smoke,<br>As if he had been all on fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O then into fury the stranger he grew,<br>And gave him a damnable look,<br>And with it a blow that laid him full low,<br>And tunbld him into the brook.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I prithee, good fellow, O where art thou now?<br>' The stranger, in laughter, he cry'd;<br>Quoth bold Robin Hood, Good faith, in the flood, <br>And floating along with the tide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I needs must acknowledge thou art a brave soul; <br>With thee I'll no longer contend;<br>For needs must I say, thous hast got the day,<br>Our battle shall be at an end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then unto the bank he did presently wade,<br>And pulld himself out by a thorn;<br>Which done, at the last, he blowd a loud blast<br>Straitway on his fine bugle-horn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The eccho of which through the vallies did fly,<br>At which his stout bowmen appeard,<br>All clothd in green, most gay to be seen;<br>So up to their master they steerd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O what's the matter?' quoth William Stutely;<br>'Good master, you are wet to the skin:'<br>'No matter,' quoth he; 'the lad which you see,<br>In fighting, hath tumbld me in.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'He shall not go scot-free,' the others reply'd;<br>So strait they were seizing him there,<br>To duck him likewise; but Robin Hood cries,<br>He is a stout fellow, forbear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's no one shall wrong thee, friend, be not afraid; <br>These bowmen upon me do wait;<br>There's threescore and nine; if thou wilt be mine, <br>Thou shalt have my livery strait.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And other accoutrements fit for a man;<br>Speak up, jolly blade, never fear;<br>I'll teach you also the use of the bow,<br>To shoot at the fat fallow-deer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O here is my hand,' the stranger reply'd,<br>'I'll serve you with all my whole heart;<br>My name is John Little, a man of good mettle;<br>Nere doubt me, for I'll play my part.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His name shall be alterd,' quoth William<br>Stutely, 'And I will his godfather be;<br>Prepare then a feast, and none of the least,<br>For we will be merry,' quoth he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They presently fetchd in a brace of fat does,<br>With humming strong liquor likewise;<br>They lovd what was good; so, in the green wood, <br>This pretty sweet babe they baptize.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was, I must tell you, but seven foot high,<br>And, may be, an ell in the waste;<br>A pretty sweet lad; much feasting they had;<br>Bold Robin the christning grac'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With all his bowmen, which stood in a ring,<br>And were of the Notti[n]gham breed;<br>Brave Stutely comes then, with seven yeomen,<br>And did in this manner proceed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'This infant was called John Little,' quoth he,<br>'Which name shall be changed anon;<br>The words we'll transpose, so where-ever he goes, <br>His name shall be calld Little John.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They all with a shout made the elements ring,<br>So soon as the office was ore;<br>To feasting they went, with true merriment,<br>And tippld strong liquor gillore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Robin he took the pretty sweet babe,<br>And cloathd him from top to the toe<br>In garments of green, most gay to be seen,<br>And gave him a curious long bow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Thou shalt be an archer as well as the best,<br>And range in the greenwood with us;<br>Where we'll not want gold nor silver, behold, <br>While bishops have ought in their purse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'We live here like squires, or lords of renown,<br>Without ere a foot of free land;<br>We feast on good cheer, with wine, ale, and beer, <br>And evry thing at our command.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then musick and dancing did finish the day;<br>At length, when the sun waxed low,<br>Then all the whole train the grove did refrain,<br>And unto their caves they did go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so ever after, as long as he livd,<br>Altho he was proper and tall,<br>Yet nevertheless, the truth to express,<br>Still Little John they did him call.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by  - <i><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/" target=_blank></a></i><div class=q>
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