When Robin Hood first heard the news of this he was in Lincoln Town, and
hastening back to Sherwood Forest he soon called all his merry men about
him and spoke to them thus:
"Now hearken, my merry men all, to the news that I have brought from
Lincoln Town today. Our friend the Sheriff of Nottingham hath
proclaimed a shooting match, and hath sent messengers to tell of it
through all the countryside, and the prize is to be a bright golden
arrow. Now I fain would have one of us win it, both because of the
fairness of the prize and because our sweet friend the Sheriff hath
offered it. So we will take our bows and shafts and go there to shoot,
for I know right well that merriment will be a-going. What say ye,
lads?"
Then young David of Doncaster spoke up and said, "Now listen, I pray
thee, good master, unto what I say. I have come straight from our
friend Eadom o' the Blue Boar, and there I heard the full news of this
same match. But, master, I know from him, and he got it from the
Sheriff's man Ralph o' the Scar, that this same knavish Sheriff hath but
laid a trap for thee in this shooting match and wishes nothing so much
as to see thee there.
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