As for my name, I care not who knoweth it.

It is Guy of Gisbourne, and thou mayst have heard it before.

I come from the woodlands over in Herefordshire, upon the lands of the Bishop of that ilk.

I am an outlaw, and get my living by hook and by crook in a manner it boots not now to tell of.

Not long since the Bishop sent for me, and said that if I would do a certain thing that the Sheriff of Nottingham would ask of me, he would get me a free pardon, and give me tenscore pounds to boot.