Sir Guy of Gisbourne (also spelled Gisburne, Gisborne, Gysborne, or Gisborn) is a character from the Robin Hood legends of English folklore. In The Ballad of Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne (Child Ballad 118), he hunts Robin for the Sheriff of Nottingham, but Robin kills him and cuts off his head. He is described so:
- A sword and a dagger he wore by his side,
- Of manye a man the bane;
- And he was clad in his capull-hyde
- Topp and tayll and mayne
- ‘I dwell by dale and downe,’ quoth hee,
- ‘And Robin to take I’me sworne;
- And when I am callèd by my right name
- I am Guy of good Gisborne.’
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