 As the shepherd is about to lay into Little John further, Robin agrees that the bet was won and Little John agrees.This ballad is part of a group of ballads about Robin Hood that in turn, like many of the popular ballads collected by Francis James Child, were in their time considered a threat to the Protestant religion.Puritan writers, like Edward Dering writing in 1572, considered such tales "'childish follye'" and "'witless devices.'"