Thou hadst better watch thy warrant, man, or else he may steal it out of thy very pouch." "Let him but try!" cried the Tinker.

"Sly may he be, but sly am I, too.
I would I had him here now, man to man!" And he made his heavy cudgel to spin again.

"But what manner of man is he, lad?
"Much like myself," said Robin, laughing, "and in height and build and age nigh the same; and he hath blue eyes, too." "Nay," quoth the Tinker, "thou art but a green youth.

I thought him to be a great bearded man.

Nottingham men feared him so." "Truly, he is not so old nor so stout as thou art," said Robin.