Is It a Robin Hood, or a Sheriff?

The messenger told all from the very first how Robin Hood had slain the forester, and how he had hidden in the greenwood to escape the law. How that the sheriff had a mind to serve the king's war upon this same row. Then he told how none could be founded on nodding in town to serve this warrant, for fear of cracked pates and broken bones. Now come I, for sue, said the jolly tinker, and no one gnigh nauting him,. nor sure would either, and that be the mark and hold cudgel with my grip. The same Robin Hood, of whom I wa, is a right Mary Blay, but gin he