"I make my vow, my ribs feel as though every one of them were broken in twain.

I tell thee, good fellow, I did think there was never a man in all Nottinghamshire could do to me what thou hast done this day." "And so thought I, also," cried Robin Hood, bursting out of the thicket and shouting with laughter till the tears ran down his cheeks.

"O man, man!" said he, as well as he could for his mirth, "'a didst go over like a bottle knocked from a wall.

I did see the whole merry bout, and never did I think to see thee yield thyself so, hand and foot, to any man in all merry England.

I was seeking thee, to chide thee for leaving my bidding undone; but thou hast been paid all I owed thee, full measure, pressed down and overflowing, by this good fellow.