Identifier: lifeingreenwood00lans (find matches)
Title: Life in the greenwood
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Lansing, Marion Florence, 1883- Copeland, Charles
Subjects: Robin Hood (Legendary character)
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ey will not away from merry Sherwood,In any place else for to dwell;For there is neithercity nor town,That likes them half so well. Our lives are wholly given to hunt, And haunt the merry greenwood;Where our best service is daily spentFor our master Robin Hood. *: <§» v t ^a f-\ b^ i ^^^ •^t & <& T a/A ^^ : r < /V/ a V4 i& ^^ -^r^ G&, -57 ROBIN HOOD AND THE BUTCHER I Upon a time it chanced so Bold Robin in forest did spyA jolly butcher, with a bonny fine mare, With his flesh to the market did hie. :< Good morrow, good fellow, said jolly Robin,1 What food hast thou ? Tell unto me. Thy trade to me tell, and where dost thou dwell,For I like well thy company. The butcher he answered then jolly Robin, No matter where I do dwell;For a butcher I am, and to Nottingham I am going my flesh to sell. .Whats the price of thy flesh ? said jolly Robin, Come tell it soon unto me;And the price of thy mare, be she never sodear, For a butcher fain would I be. 128
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Good morrow, good fellow,Said jolly Robin. 130 LIFE IN THE GREENWOOD The price of my flesh, the butcher replied, * I soon will tell unto thee;With my bonny mare, — and they are not too dear,—Four marks thou must give unto me. Four marks I will give thee, saith jollyRobin, Four marks it shall be thy fee.The money come count, and let me mount, For a butcher I fain would be. II Now Robin he is to Nottingham gone, His butchers trade to begin;With good intent to the sheriff he went, And there he took up his inn. When other butchers did open their meat, Bold Robin he then begun;But how for to sell he knew not well, For a butcher he was but young. ROBIN HOOD AND THE BUTCHER 131 When other butchers no meat could sell, Robin got both gold and fee;For he sold more meat for one penny Than others could do for three. But when he sold his meat so fast,No butcher by him could thrive; For he sold more meat for one pennyThan others could do for five. Which made the butchers of Nottingham To study

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