"I'll hold you twenty marks," said bold Robin Hood,
"By the leave of Our Lady,
That I'll hit a mark a hundred rod,
And I'll cause a hart to die."

"We'll hold you twenty mark," then said the foresters,
"By the leave of Our Lady,
Thou hits not the mark a hundred rod,
Nor causest a hart to die."

Robin Hood he bent up a noble bow,
And a broad arrow he let fly,
He hit the mark a hundred rod,
And he caused a hart to die.

Some said he brake ribs one or two,
And some said he brake three;
The arrow within the hart would not abide,
But it glanced in two or three.

The hart did skip, and the hart did leap,
And the hart lay on the ground.
"The wager is mine," said bold Robin Hood,
"If't were for a thousand pound."

Lines 19-38 from Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham