I opened it and read: "Thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a shield:

"But who art thou that comest from Locksley Town?" "A yeoman am I, and men do call me Robin Hood."

Tho' far thou comest in the eve, yet dost thou tarry late.

I read the promises which Jesus made to the thief on the cross, when he said to him, "Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

I see all mischeifes do not com by land, Som's doone upon the water.

It is a pledge thou comest on some errand less ungracious than common.

So he went out in his shepherd's dress, with only his staff and sling; and Goliath, who was very angry at this, cried out: "Am I a dog, that thou comest against me with a staff?"

That message give him, Nikesippos, when thou comest unto my honoured friend.

During their course a spirit rose out of the mire, looking Dante in the face, and said, "Who art thou, that comest before thy time?

Thou wilt not forget that thou comest of a house which has held honors in Church and State.

Weenest thou that I am a hound that comest with thy staff to me?

Now it happed that the night after St. Peter and St. Paul appeared to this Emperor Constantine, saying to him: Because thou hast had horror to shed and spill the blood of innocents, our Lord Jesu Christ hath had pity on thee, and commandeth thee to send unto such a mountain where Silvester is hid with his clerks, and say to him that thou comest for to be baptized of him and thou shalt be healed of thy malady.

Thou comest like a pure spirit, rising from thy earthly home unsullied and unknown.

The Hebrew inscription on the tree read: "When thou comest near this spot, thou wilt suffer what thou didst to me.

no better than a thief, and comest after our good King's deer.