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Цветаева Марина
«Стихотворения 1906-1941»

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with me, old man,


Come change thy apparel for mine;


Here is forty shillings in good silver,


Go drink it in beer or wine."


"O thine apparel is good," he said,


"And mine is ragged and torn;


Wherever you go, wherever you ride,


Laugh ne'er an old man to scorn."


"Come change thy apparel with me, old churl,


Come change thy apparel with mine;


Here are twenty pieces of good broad gold,


Go feast thy brethren with wine."


Then he put on the old man's hat,


It stood full high on the crown:


"The first bold bargain that I came at,


It shall make thee come down."


Then he put on the old man's cloak,


Was patched black, blew, and red;


He thought no shame all the day long


To wear the bags of bread.


Then he put on the old man's breeks,


Was patched from baliup to side;


"By the truth of my body," bold Robin can say,


"This man loved little pride."


Then he put on the old man's hose,


Were patched from knee to wrist;


"By the truth of my body," said bold Robin Hood,


"I'd laugh if I had any list."


Then he put on the old man's shoes,


Were patched both beneath and aboon;


Then Robin Hood swore a solemn oath,


It 's good habit that makes a man.


Now Robin Hood is to Nottingham gone,


With a link a down and a down,


And there he met with the proud sheriff,


Was walking along the town.


"O save, O save, O sheriff," he said,


"O save, and you may see!


And what will you give "to a silly old man


To-day will your hangman be?"


"Some suits, some suits," the sheriff he said,


"Some suits I 'II give to thee;


Some suits, some suits,

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