"The wager's none of thine," then said the foresters,
"Although thou beest in haste;
Take up thy bow, and get thee hence,
Lest wee thy sides do baste."

Robin Hood he took up his noble bow,
And his broad arrows all amain,
And Robin Hood he laughed, and begun to smile,
As he went over the plain.

Then Robin Hood he bent his noble bow,
And his broad arrows he let fly,
Till fourteen of these fifteen foresters
Upon the ground did lie.

He that did this quarrel first begin,
Went tripping over the plain,
But Robin Hood he bent his noble bow,
And he fetched him back again.

"You said I was no archer," said Robin Hood,
"But say so now again."
With that he sent another arrow
That split his head in twain.

Lines 39-58 from Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham