Chapter 17 HOW THE BISHOP WAS DINED

"O what is the matter?" then said the Bishop,

"Or for whom do you make this a-do?

Or why do you kill the King's venison,

When your company is so few?"

"We are shepherds," quoth bold Robin Hood,

"And we keep sheep all the year,

And we are disposed to be merrie this day,

And to kill of the King's fat deer."

Not many days after