Truly, Quince the Cobbler will ha' a fine feast this day an I mistake not." "But tell me, good Quince," said Robin, "hast thou a mind to sell those things to me?
For the hearing of them sounds sweet in mine ears.

I will give thee these gay clothes of blue that I have upon my body and ten shillings to boot for thy clothes and thy leather apron and thy beer and thy capon.

What sayst thou, bully boy ?" "Nay, thou dost jest with me," said the Cobbler, "for my clothes are coarse and patched, and thine are of fine stuff and very pretty." "Never a jest do I speak," quoth Robin.

"Come, strip thy jacket off and I will show thee, for I tell thee I like thy clothes well.

Moreover, I will be kind to thee, for I will feast straightway upon the good things thou hast with thee, and thou shalt be bidden to the eating." At these words he began slipping off his doublet, and the Cobbler, seeing him so in earnest, began pulling off his clothes also, for Robin Hood's garb tickled his eye.