Robin Hood Ballads

Famous quotes containing the words robin hood, robin, hood and/or ballads:

    ‘Lay me a green sod under my head,
    And another at my feet;
    And lay my bent bow at my side,
    Which was my music sweet;
    And make my grave of gravel and green,
    Which is most right and meet.
    —Unknown. Robin Hood’s Death (l. 65–70)

    Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.
    —Leo Robin (b. 1900)

    A yeman hadde he and servantz namo
    At that tyme, for hym liste ride so,
    And he was clad in cote and hood of grene.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    Saint Andrews crosse, that is his guide;
    —Unknown. Sir Andrew Barton. . .

    English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)