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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344273" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Robin Hood And The Butcher</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, all you brave gallants, and listen awhile,<br>With hey down, down, an a down,<br>That are in the bowers within;<br>For of Robin Hood, that archer good,<br>A song I intend for to sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon a time it chanced so,<br>Bold Robin in forrest did 'spy<br>A jolly butcher, with a bonny fine mare,<br>With his flesh to the market did hye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Good morrow, good fellow,' said jolly Robin,<br>'What food hast [thou]? tell unto me;<br>Thy trade to me tell, and where thou dost dwell,<br>For I like well thy company.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The butcher he answer'd jolly Robin,<br>'No matter where I dwell;<br>For a butcher I am, and to Nottingham<br>I am going, my flesh to sell.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What's [the] price of thy flesh?' said jolly Robin,<br>'Come, tell it soon unto me;<br>And the price of thy mare, be she never so dear,<br>For a butcher fain would I be.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The price of my flesh,' the butcher repli'd,<br>'I soon will tell unto thee;<br>With my bonny mare, and they are not too dear,<br>Four mark thou must give unto me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Four mark I will give thee,' saith jolly Robin,<br>'Four mark it shall be thy fee;<br>The mony come count, and let me mount,<br>For a butcher I fain would be.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now Robin he is to Nottingham gone,<br>His butchers trade to begin;<br>With good intent to the sheriff he went,<br>And there he took up his inn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When other butchers did open their meat,<br>Bold Robin he then begun;<br>But how for to sell he knew not well,<br>For a butcher he was but young.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When other butchers no meat could sell,<br>Robin got both gold and fee;<br>For he sold more meat for one peny<br>Then others could do for three.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when he sold his meat so fast,<br>No butcher by him could thrive;<br>For he sold more meat for one peny<br>Than others could do for five.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which made the butchers of Nottingham<br>To study as they did stand,<br>Saying, 'Surely he 'is' some prodigal,<br>That hath sold his fathers land.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The butchers stepped to jolly Robin,<br>Acquainted with him for to be;<br>'Come, brother,' one said, 'we be all of one trade,<br>Come, will you go dine with me?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Accurst of his heart,' said jolly Robin,<br>'That a butcher doth deny;<br>I will go with you, my brethren true,<br>As fast as I can hie.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when to the sheriffs house they came,<br>To dinner they hied apace,<br>And Robin Hood he the man must be<br>Before them all to say grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Pray God bless us all,' said jolly Robin,<br>'And our meat within this place;<br>A cup of sack so good will nourish our blood,<br>And so do I end my grace.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Come fill us more wine,' said jolly Robin,<br>'Let us be merry while we do stay;<br>For wine and good cheer, be it never so dear,<br>I vow I the reck'ning will pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Come, 'brothers,' be merry,' said jolly Robin,<br>'Let us drink, and never give ore;<br>For the shot I will pay, ere I go my way,<br>If it cost me five pounds and more.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'This is a mad blade,' the butchers then said;<br>Saies the sheriff, 'He is some prodigal,<br>That some land has sold for silver and gold,<br>And now he doth mean to spend all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Hast thou any horn beasts,' the sheriff repli'd,<br>'Good fellow, to sell unto me?'<br>'Yes, that I have, good master sheriff,<br>I have hundreds two or three;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And a hundred aker of good free land,<br>If you please it to see:<br>And Ile make you as good assurance of it,<br>As ever my father made me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sheriff he saddled his good palfrey,<br>And, with three hundred pound in gold,<br>Away he went with bold Robin Hood,<br>His horned beasts to behold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away then the sheriff and Robin did ride,<br>To the forrest of merry Sherwood;<br>Then the sheriff did say, 'God bless us this day<br>From a man they call Robin Hood!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when a little farther they came,<br>Bold Robin he chanced to spy<br>A hundred head of good red deer,<br>Come tripping the sheriff full nigh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'How like you my horn'd beasts, good master sheriff?<br>They be fat and fair for to see;'<br>'I tell thee, good fellow, I would I were gone,<br>For I like not thy company.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Robin set his horn to his mouth,<br>And blew but blasts three;<br>Then quickly anon there came Little John,<br>And all his company.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'What is your will, master?' then said Little John,<br>'Good master come tell unto me;'<br>'I have brought hither the sheriff of Nottingham<br>This day to dine with thee.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'He is welcome to me,' then said Little John,<br>'I hope he will honestly pay;<br>I know he has gold, if it be but well told,<br>Will serve us to drink a whole day.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Robin took his mantle from his back,<br>And laid it upon the ground:<br>And out of the sheriffs portmantle<br>He told three hundred pound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Robin he brought him thorow the wood,<br>And set him on his dapple gray;<br>'O have me commanded to your wife at home;'<br>So Robin went laughing away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Lang">Andrew Lang</a><div class=q>
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With hey down, down, an a down,
That are in the bowers within;
For of Robin Hood, that archer good,
A song I intend for to sing.

Upon a time it chanced so,
Bold Robin in forrest did 'spy
A jolly bu..."></div>
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