Come, turn about, Robin Hood

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-06.

The expression Come, turn about, Robin Hood seems to have implied that to ask Robin Hood to turn about was tantamoount to asking the impossible.

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• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 289.

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