Some say he shot a mile,
But halfe a mile and more
Was it, was it, hey ho.
And at the halfe miles end [a,]
There stood an armed man; 30
The childe he shot him through,
And through and through, hey ho.
His beard was all on a white a,
As white as whaleis bone,
His eyes they were as cleare 35
As christall stone, hey ho.
And there of him they made [a]
Good yeoman Robin Hood,
Scarlet, and Little John,
And Little John, hey ho. 40
IN SHERWOOD LIVDE STOUT ROBIN HOOD.
Gutch's _Robin Hood_, ii. 393.
From _A Musicall Dreamt, or the fourth booke of Ayres_, &c., London,
1606. Ritson printed the same from the edition of 1609.
In Sherwood livde stout Robin Hood,
An archer great, none greater;
His bow and shafts were sure and good,
Yet Cupids were much better.
Robin could shoot at many a hart and misse, 5
Cupid at first could hit a hart of his.
_Hey, jolly Robin, hoe, jolly Robin, hey, jolly Robin Hood,
Love finds out me, as well as thee, so follow me, so follow me to
the green-wood_.[L8]
A noble thiefe was Robin Hoode,
Wise was he could deceive him; 10
Yet Marrian, in his bravest mood,
Could of his heart bereave him!
No greater thief lies hidden under skies
Then beauty closely lodgde in womens eyes.
_Hey, jolly Robin, &c._
An out-law was this Robin Hood, 15
His life free and unruly;
Yet to faire Marrian bound he stood,
And loves debt payed her duely.
Whom curbe of stricktest law could not hold in,
Love with obeyednes and a winke could winne
_Hey, jolly Robin, &c._ 20
Now wend we home, stout Robin Hood,
Leave we the woods behind us;
Love-passions must not be withstood,
Love every where will find us.
I livde in fielde and downe, and so did he, 25
I got me to the woods, love followed me.
_Hey, jolly Robin, &c._
8, to follow. Ritson.
THE SONG OF ROBIN HOOD AND HIS HUNTES-MEN.
From Anthony Munday's London pageant for 1615, entitled _Metropolis
Coronata, the Triumphes of Ancient Drapery_. Munday was a popular
ballad-writer, and, together with Chettle, the author of two
well-known plays on the fortunes of "Robert Earl of Huntington." This
song is taken from _The Civic Garland_, in the Percy Society
Publications, vol. xix. p. 15.
Now wend we together, my merry men all,
Unto the forrest side a:
And there to strike a buck or a doe,
Let our cunning all be a tride a.
Then go we merrily, merrily on, 5
To the green-wood to take up our stand,
Where we will lye in waite for our game,
With our bent bowes in our hand.
What life is there like to bold Robin Hood?
It is so pleasant a thing a: 10
In merry Shirwood he spends his dayes,
As pleasantly as a king a.
No man may compare with Robin Hood,
With Robin Hood, Scathlocke and John;
Their like was never, nor never will be, 15
If in ease that they were gone.
They will not away from merry Shirwood,
In any place else to dwell:
For there is neither city nor towne,
That likes them halfe so well. 20
Our lives are wholly given to hunt,
And haunt the merry greene-wood,
Where our best service is daily spent
For our master Robin Hood.
GLOSSARY.
[right pointing hand] Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur.
a', _all_.
aboon, abune, _above_.
abowthe, _about_.
abye, _abide_, _pay_.
acward stroke, 21, _an unusual, out-of-the-way stroke, which could not
be guarded against_.
ae, _one_.
aftur the way, 11, _upon the way_.
agayne, _against_.
agone, _ago_.
aik, _oak_.
alane, _alone_.
Alcaron, 414, _the name of an imaginary deity, by metathesis from
Alcoran_. RITSON. _The original reading is, however, Acoron_.
alkone, _each one_.
al so mote, _so may I_.
altherbest, _best of all_.
amain, all, 292, _at once_.
ance, _once_.
anker, _anchorite_.
a-row, _in a row_.
Arthur-a-Bradley, 351, _the title of a ballad_.
arwe, _arrow_;
arwys, _arrows_.
asay, _tried_.
assoyld, _absolved_.
avowè, _founder_, _patron_, _protector_.
awayte me scathe, 80, _lie in wait, or lay plots_, _to do me injury_.
awet, _know_.
awkwarde stroke, 166, _an unusual, out-of-the-way stroke_.
ayen, _again_.
ayenst, _against_.
ayont, _beyond_.
ayre, by, 197, _early_.
azon, 39, _against_, _towards [them]_.
bale, _ruin_, _harm_, _mischief_.
ballup, 264, _the front or flap of small clothes_.
banis, _bane_.
barking, 336, _leather-tanning_.
baylyes, 153, _bailiffs_, _sheriff's officers_.
be, _by_.
bearyng arow, 155, "_an arrow that carries well_;"
see vol. vii.
became, 184, _came_.
bedene, 77, _in a company_, _together_.(?)
bedyl, 153, beadle, _the keeper of a prison_.
beforn, 41, _before_, _first_.
beft, 203, _beaten_.
begeck, give a, 198, _make a mock of_, _expose to derision_.
beheste, 429, _promise_.
behote, 99, _promise_;
96, _promised_.
beir, _noise_, _cry_.
belive, belyfe, _quickly_, _at once_.
ben, _in_.
benbow, 432, _bent bow_.
bend, 405, _turn of a forest_.
bescro, _beshrew_, _curse_.
bestead, _circumstanced_, _put to it_.
bewch, 159, _bough_.
bigged, _built_.
bigly, _commodious_, _pleasant to live in_.
bil, _pike or halbert_.
blate, _sheepish_, _foolish_.
blowe bost, 55, _make boast_.
blutter, 195, _dirty_.
blyve, _quickly_.
bocking, _belching_, _flowing out_.
bode, _bid_.
boltys, _arrows, especially arrows with a blunt head_.
bone, _boon_.
booting, 188, _robbing adventure_.
borow, _surety_.
borowe, _redeem_.
boskyd, _made ready_.
bote, _help_, _use_.
bottys, _shooting butts_.
boun, boune, _make ready_;
bown'd, 193, _went_.
boune, bowne, _ready_, _ready to go_;
244, _going_.
bour, _bower_, _chamber_, _dwelling_.
bowne, _boon_.
boyt, _both_.
braide at a, 145, _suddenly_, _in a moment_.
braves, _bravadoes_.
bree, _brow_.
breeks, _breeches_.
brenne, _burn_.
brere, _briar_, _thorn_.
breyde, _a start_, _leap_.
breyde, _started_, _leaped_, _stepped hastily_.
briddis, _birds_.
broke, 91, _use and enjoy_.
browthe, _brought_.
browzt, _brought_.
bruik, _enjoy_.
bryk, _breeches_.
buske, _bush_.
buske, _dress_;
54, _make ready to go_, _go_.
busshement, _ambush_.
but, _without_;
193, but fail, _without fail_;
but and, _and also_.
bydene, 105, _all together_, _forthwith_, _one after the other_.(?)
bystode, _put into a plight_, _circumstanced_.
can, as an auxiliary, equivalent to _did_.
can, _know_;
coud, _knew_;
can thanke, _feel grateful_, (_savoir gré_.)
cankerdly, _with ill humor_.
capull, _horse_.
carefull, _sorrowful_.
carpe, _talk_, _narrate_.
carril, carel, _churl_.
certyl, _kirtle_;
41, _jacket or waistcoat_.
chaffar, chaffer, _merchandise_, _commodity_.
charter of peace, _deed of pardon_, _safe-warrant_.
chear well, 190, _make good cheer_, _have a good prospect_.
chepe, v. _buy_;
n. _bargain_.
chere, _face_.
cheys, _choose_.
chitt, 258, _worn_?
chiven, 405, _craven_?
claw'd, 194, _scratched_, _curried_.
clepyn, _call_.
clipping, _embracing_.
clouted, _patched_.
cofer, _trunk_.
cold, 259, _could_, used as an auxiliary of the perfect tense.
cole, _cowl_.
comet, _cometh_.
commytted, 120, _accounted_.
comyn belle, 13, _town-bell_.
coost, _cast_.
coresed, 62, _harnessed_. HALLIWELL. (A guess?)
cote-a-pye, _upper garment_, _short cloak_.
coud, _could_, used as an auxiliary of the perfect tense;
coud his curtesye, 76, [_showed that he_] _understood good manners_.
counsel, _secret_.
covent, _convent_.
cow, _clip_.
cowed, _could_, _knew_.
cowthe, _could_.
crack, _chat_, _talk_.
craftely, _skilfully_.
creves, _crevice_.
crouse, 192, _merrily_.
curn, 191, _quantity of_.
curtall fryer, 272, _apparently the friar with the curtall (cur) dogs_.
curtes, _courteous_.
cutters, _swaggerers_, _riotous fellows_.
cypress, 411, _gauze_, _crape_.
dale, been at a, _in low spirits_?
dame, 86, _mother_, i.e. _Mary_.
deale, _part_.
dee, _die_.
dee, _do_;
deen, _done_.
deft, _neat_, _trim_.
demed, _judged_.
dere, _harm_.
dere worthy, _precious_.
derne, _secret_, _privy_, _retired_.
devilkyns, 57, _deuced_.
did of, _doffed_.
doen him, _betaken him_.
doe of, _doff_.
doubt, doute, _fear_, _danger_.
doyt, _do_.
dree, _bear_, _suffer_, _endure_.
dub, 196, _pool_.
dule, _lamentation_.
dung, _struck down_, _put down_.
duzty, _doughty_, _brave_.
dyght, 100, _done_.
dyght, _ready_, _made ready_;
dyghtande, 111, _making ready_, _cooking_.
dysgrate, _disgraced_, _degraded_, _fallen into poverty_.
eftsones, _afterward_, _hereafter_.
eild, _age_.
emys, _uncles_.
ere, 86, _before_.
erst, _before_.
even, _exactly_.
everyche, euerilkone, everichone, _each_, _every one_.
exaltrè, _axle-tree_.
eylde het the, _requite (thee for) it_.
eyr, _year_.
faem, _foam_, _sea_.
fail, but, 193, _without fail_.
faine, _glad_.
falleth, 114, _suiteth_.
falyf, _fallen_.
fánatick, 414, _madman_.
fang, _strap_.
fare, _way of proceeding_;
114, _fortune_;
for all his frendes fare, seems to mean, _notwithstanding the
penalties suffered by his friends for their bad shots_.
fare, _go_.
farley, _strange_.
fault, 367, _misfortune_.
fay, _faith_.
fayne, _glad_.
fe, fee, _property_, _wages_, _reward_.
feardest, 197, _most frightened_.
federed, _feathered_.
felischepe, 22, _compact of friendship_.
fend, _find_.
fende, _defend_.
ferd, 10, _fear_;
probably misspelt.
fere, _mate_.
ferly, _wonderful_, _extraordinary_.
ferre dayes, 47, _late in the day_.
ferre and frend bestad, 69, _in the position of a stranger from a
distance_.
fet, _fetched_.
fet, fit, _song_.
fetteled, _made ready_.
finikin, _fine_.
flaps, _strokes_, _blows_.
fleych, _flesh_.
flinders, _fragments_.
flo, _arrow_.
fone, _foes_.
forbode godys, 30, gods forbott, 260, _God's prohibition_;
over gods forbode, 157, _on God's prohibition_, _God forbid_.
force, fors, _matter_.
forebye, _on one side_.
for god, _before God_.
forlorne, _lost_, _forsaken_, _alone_.
forsoyt, _forsooth_.
forthynketh, _repenteth_.
fostere, _forester_;
fosters of the fe, 153, _foresters in the King's pay_.
foryete, 72, _forgotten_.
fothe, _foot_.
foulys, _fowls_, _birds_.
free, 272, _gracious_, _bounteous_.
frend, _foreign_, _strange_;
ferre and frend bestad, 69, _in the position of a stranger from a
distance_.
frese (said of bows), 82?
fu', _full_.
fynly, _goodly_.
gang, _go_.
gangna, _go not_.
gar, _make_.
gate, 162, 196, _way_.
general, 290, _perhaps the governor, Nottingham having once been a
garrison town_. RITSON.
Rather, _people_;
i.e. _in public_, _with the rest of the world_.
ger, 27, _gear_, _affair_.
gest, _guest_.
geste, _story_.
gie, _give_.
gif, _if_.
gillore, _plenty_.
gin, _if_.
gladdynge, _entertaining_.
go, _walk_.
god, 31, _valuables_.
gods forbott, 260, _God's prohibition_, _God forbid_.
golett, _throat_, _the part of the dress or armor which covered the
throat_.
gone, _go_;
ride and go, _ride and walk_.
gorney, _journey_.
graff, 225, _branch or sapling_.
gree, 64, _satisfaction_.
greece, hart of, _a fat hart_.
grithe, 16, _peace_, _protection_, _security for a certain time_.
grome, _groom_;
45, _a_ (_common_) _man_.
ha', _hall_.
had, _hold_, _keep_.
hail, _wholly_.
halfendell, _half_.
halke, 108, _hollow_?
hambellet, _ambleth_.
hame, _home_.
han, _have_.
hansell, 23, _is the first money received in a new shop, or on any
particular day_. The passage seems to be corrupt.
hantyd, _haunted_.
harbengers, _harbingers_, _servants that went on before their lords
during a journey, to provide lodgings_.
harowed, _despoiled_.
hart of greece, _a fat hart_.
hase, _neck_.
haud, _hold_.
haulds, 195, _things to take hold of_.
haunted, _resorted frequently_.
hawt, _aught_.
hayt, _hath_.
he, 39, _they_.
heal'd, _concealed_.
hede, _head_.
hee, _high_.
hende, _gentle_, _courteous_.
hent, _took_.
heres, _here is_.
het, _it_.
het, _eat_.
heynd, _gentle_, _courteous_.
hight, _called_, _are called_.
ho, hoo, _who_.
hode, _hood_.
holde, 61, _retain_.
holy, _wholly_.
hos, _us_.
housbond, _manager_.
howt, _out_;
heyt war howte, 23, a corrupt passage?
huckle-duckle, 424, _a term for a loose woman_.
humming, _heady_.
hye, in, _aloft_.
hyght, _promised_, _vowed_.
hynde, _servant_.
hypped, _hopped_, _hobbled_.
i-bonde, _bound_.
i-chaunged, _changed_.
i-federed, _feathered_.
ilk, _each_;
ilkone, _each one_.
in fere, _in company_.
inn, 34, _abode_, _stand_.
i-nocked, _nocked_, _notched_.
inow, _enough_.
in same, _together_.
intil, _into_, _in_.
into, _in_.
in twaine, _apart_.
i-pyght, _put_.
i-quyt, _rewarded_.
i-sette, _set_.
i-slawe, _slain_.
ither, _each other_.
i-wysse, _surely_.
japes, _jests_, _mocks_.
jobbing, 374, _knocking together_.
kende, kent, _knew_.
kep, _catch_;
kep'd, kept, keepit, _caught_.
kepe;
non odur kepe I'll be, 15, _I will be no other kind of retainer_,
_I will have no other relations_.
kest, _cast_.
kilt, _tuck up_.
knave, _servant_ (_boy_);
knave bairn, _male child_.
knop, _a knob or swelling from a blow_.
kod, _quoth_.
kyrtell, _kirtle_, _waistcoat_, _jacket, or tunic_.
lad, _lead_.
laigh, 196, _low ground_.
lang, _longer_.
lap, _leaped_.
launde, _an open place in a wood_.
launsgay, _a kind of dart or javelin_;
(a compound of _lance_, and the Arabic _zagaye_, says Myrick,
Antient Armour, &c.)
lawhyng, _laughing_.
layne, _deception_.
leace, _lying_.
leasynge, _lying_.
leave, 395, _dear_.
ledes man, _conductor_.
lee licht, 171, _lonely_, _sad light_.
leese, _lose_.
lefe, _dear_, _pleasant_.
lende, 113, _dwell_.
lene, 58, _grant_;
59, _lend_.
lengre, _longer_.
lere, _cheek_.
lere, _learn_.
lese, _lose_.
lest, _desire_.
lesynge, _lying_.
let, _stop_;
letna, _let not_;
lettyng, _stopping_.
leugh, _laughed_.
lever, _rather_.
lewtè, _loyalty_.
ley, _lea_.
leythe, _light_.
liflod, _livelihood_.
ligge, 332, _lay_.
lightilé, lyghtly, _quickly_.
lin, _stop_.
lin'd, 203, _beaten_.
list, _desire_.
list, _pleased_.
lith, 170, _joint_, _limb_.
lithe, _hearken_.
liver, _nimble_.
lizt, _light_.
lokid on, 8, _looked in at_.
longe of the, _thy fault_.
longut, _longed_.
lordeyne, _sluggard_, _clown_.
lore, _lost_.
lothely, _with aversion_, _with hatred_.
lough, _laughed_.
loused, lowsed, _loosed_.
low, _laughed_.
lowe, 167, _a small hill_.
lown, _rogue_.
lust, _desire_.
lynde, lyne, _linden_, _lime_, _tree in general_.
lynge, 10, _a thin long grass or rush_, _heather_.
lyth, _hearken_.
lyveray, _an allowance of provisions or clothes given out to servants
or retainers_;
73, _levy_.
lyzth, _lies_.
male, _portmanteau_;
68, _[the horse carrying] the portmanteau_.
maney, _company_.
mar, _more_.
marry, _Mary_;
marry gep, _apparently, Mary go up_!
masars, 75, _cups_, _vessels_.
masterey, _mastery_, _trial of skill_, _feat_.
mat, _may_.
maun, _must_;
maunna, _may not_.
may, _maid_.
maystry, _trial of skill_, _feat_.
meal-pock, _meal-bag_.
meatrif, _abounding in provisions_.
mell, _meddle_.
menyè, meynè, _company_.
mete, _measured_.
methe, _meat_.
meyt, meythe, _might_.
mickle, _great_.
middle streame, 274, _middle of the stream_.
misters, 203, _sorts of_.
mo, _more_.
molde, _ground_.
mot, _may_.
mote, _meeting_.
mought, _might_.
mow, _mouth_.
muckle, _much_.
mych, _much_.
mylner, _miller_.
mysaunter, _misadventure_, _ill luck_.
myster, _need_.
myzt, _might_.
nae, _not_.
nar, _nor_, _than_.
ner, _never_.
ner, _were it not_.
ner; they ner, _thine ear_.
nere, _nearer_.
next way, _nearest way_.
nicked, _notched_, _cut_, _slashed_.
niddart, 403, _assailed_.
nip, _bit_;
curn nips of sticks, 191, _bundle of small sticks_.
nipped, _pinched_.
nombles, numbles, _[the eatable] entrails_.
nouther, _neither_.
odur, _other_.
ohon, _interjection of grief_, _alas_.
okerer, _usurer_.
oltrance, _outrance_, _utterance_.
on, _one_.
onfere, _together_.
on lyve, _alive_.
onslepe, _asleep_.
onys, _once_.
or, _before_.
os, _us_.
ought, _owed_.
out-horne, _a horn blown to summon people to assist in capturing a
fugitive_.
over all, _everywhere_.
owthe, _out_.
owtlay, _outlaw_.
oysyd, _used_, _followed_.
passe, _extent_, _bounds_, _limits_, _district_;
as the pas de Calais. RITSON.
partakers, _persons to take one's part_.
pawage, pauage, pavag, _toll for the privilege of passing over the
territory of another_.
pay, _satisfaction_.
peces, 75, _vessels_;
_unless it be gold pieces_.
pinder, _pounder_, _pound-keeper_.
pine, _pain_.
plucke, _stroke_, _blow_;
423, _bout_;
plucke-buffet, 118, _is explained by the context_.
prece, prese, _crowd_;
prees, 65, _press (of battle)_.
preced, _pressed_.
preke, _the pin in the centre of a target_.
president, _precedent_.
prest, 29, _fast_, _zealously_.
prest, _quick_, _in a hurry_;
prestly, _quickly_.
pricke-wande, _a rod set up as a mark. The prick is the peg in the
centre of a target_.
prycker, 425, _a galloping horse_.
pryffe, 430, _prove_.
pryme, _six in the morning_.
pudding-prick, _a skewer to fasten a pudding-bag_.
put at the stane, _throw the stone as a trial of strength_;
putting-stane, _the stone used in this exercise_.
pyne, _suffering_;
goddes pyne, _Christ's passion_.
quequer, _quiver_.
queyt, qwyte, _reward_.
raked, 196, _proceeded leisurely_, _sauntered_.
raking, 259, 275, _walking hastily_, _running_.
rawe, _row_.
ray, _prepare_.
raye, 84, _striped cloth. "Cloth not coloured or dyed. It is mentioned
in many old statutes in contradistinction to cloth of colour."_
RITSON.
reachles, _reckless_, _careless_.
red, _advice_.
red, _rid_.
reddely, _quickly_.
reede, _advise_.
renne, _run_.
reuth, _pity_.
reve, _rob_, _take by force_.
revere, _river_.
reves, _bailiffs_, _receivers_.
rewth, _pity_.
ripe, _rip_.
ripe, 190, _search_;
202, _cleanse_.
rode, _rood_, _cross_.
rout, 191, _blow_.
rowed, _rolled_.
rowte, _company_.
rue, 377, _to cause to rue_.
rung, _staff_.
ryall, _royal_.
ryghtwys, _righteous_, _just_.
sad, 82, _firm_, _resolute_.
sall, _shall_;
salna, _shall not_.
salued, _greeted_.
same, _in_, _together_.
sanchothis, 41? (The meaning is that the arrow went between the legs.)
sawtene, _sought_.
scaith, scathe, _hurt_, _harm_.
schet, schette, _shot_.
schrewde, _sharp_.
sclo, _slay_.
scouth, 195, _room_, _range_.
screffe, _sheriff_.
se, see, _protect_.
seal, 396, Gude seal, _God seal_, _forbid_?
seke, _search_;
20, he was not to seke, _he did not require to be looked for_.
seker, _sure_, _resolute_.
selerer, cellarer, _the officer of a convent that furnished provisions_.
semblaunte, _countenance_.
sete, _set_.
sets, 348, _suits_.
shawe, 1, 94, 160, _grove_, _wood_.
shende, _injure_, _blame_.
shete, _shoo_t;
shet, _shot_.
sheyne, _bright_.
shone, shoen, _shoes_.
shope, _created_.
shot-window, _a projecting window_.
shradd, 160, (spelt also shard,) _an opening in a wood_.
shrewed, 63, _cursed_, _precious_!
shroggs, 164, _shrubs_, _twigs_.
shryve, _sheriff_.
shuldis, _shouldst_.
silly, _simple_.
sith, _since_.
slack, _low ground_, _valley_.
slade, _valley_, _ravine_, _strip of greensward between two woods_.
slawe, _slain_.
slist, _sliced_.
slon, _slay_;
slone, _slain_.
somers, _sumpter horses_.
sorowe tyme, 61, _sorry_, _bad time_.
sothe, _truth_.
sound, _swoon_.
sowt, 40, _south_.
soyt, _sooth_, _truth_.
spar, _spare_, _stop_.
sparris, _shutst_;
sparred, _shut_.
spear, speir, _ask about_.
spercles, _sparks_.
sprunks, 378, _concubines_?
spyrred, _asked_, _asked for_.
stage, 8, _story of the house_?
stalle, 16, _place in general_, _room_, _house_.
stark, _stiff_.
stede, _place_.
sterte, _started_, _rushed_.
steven, 168, _voice_;
164, unsett steven, _a time not previously appointed_.
stime, _a particle of light_.
sto', _store_, _a quantity_.
stood upon, 356, _concerned_, _was worth his while_.
store, set no, _make no account of_.
stound, _hour_, _time_.
stowre, _turmoil_.
strypes, _strokes_.
stroke, 259, _stretch_?
stye, 14, _lane_.
sune, _son_.
sweaven, _dream_.
sweir, _niggardly_, _unwilling to part with any thing_.
swinke, _toil_.
swownd, _swoon_.
swyre, 430, _neck_.
syne, _then_, _afterwards_.
syth, _then_.
take, (often) _give_;
take up (the table), _clear away_.
takle, takyll, _arrow_.
tarpe, 111?
tee, _to_.
teene, tene, _harm_, _trouble_, _vexation_.
than, _then_.
the, _they_.
the, _thrive_, _prosper_.
then, _than_.
ther, _their_.
there, 106, _where_.
thes, _thus_.
thir, _they_.
tho, _those_.
thocht, _thought_.
thother, _other_.
thoucht _long_, thought lang, _grew weary_.
thrast, _thrust_, _pressed_.
throly, 5, _boldly_.
throng, _hastened_.
throwe, _space of time_.
thrumme, _the extremity of a weaver's warp_;
40, _band_ _or_ _belt_?
thryes, _thrice_.
thynketh, _seemeth_.
till, _to_.
tithyngus, _tidings_.
to, _two_.
to-hande, _two-hand_.
toke, _committed to_.
tortyll, 28, _twisted_. Qy. reading?
trawale, _labor_, _vocation_.
tray, 81, (A.S. trega,) _vexation_.
tree, _staff_.
trenchen, 203, _cutting_.
treyffe, 32, _thrive_.
tristil tre, 7, _tree of trist_, _or_ _meeting_.
trowet, _troth_.
trusyd, _trussed_.
trysty tre, _tristing tree_, _tree of meeting_.
tyde, _time_.
tyll, _to_.
tynde, _tine_, _antler_.
tyne, _lose_.
unketh, _strange_, _stranger_.
unneath, unneth, _hardly_.
untyll, _unto_.
upchaunce, _peradventure_, _perchance_.
venyson, 130, _deer-stealing_.
voyded, _went off_.
wa, _wall_.
wad, _would_.
wan, _got_, _came_.
wane, 70;
wonnynge wane, _dwelling-place_: wane is perhaps an error for _hame_.
war, _aware_.
warden-pies, 368;
_wardens are large baking-pears_.
warisone, 14, _reward_.
was, 25, _wash_.
waur, _worse_.
waythmen, page ix., _hunters_, _sportsmen_ (German, Weidmann). Often
explained _outlaws_, _rovers_.
wed, wedde, _pledge_, _deposit_.
wedes, _garments_.
welde, _would_.
welt, _wielded_, _disposed of_.
wenion, 225, _curse_, (a word of unknown origin.)
wende, went, _weened_, _thought_.
weppynd, _weaponed_.
west, _wist_.
wet, wete, _know_.
whether, _whither_.
whute, _whistle_;
whues, _whistlings_.
wigger, _wicker_.
wight, _strong_.
wilfulle, 164, (like wilsom,) _doubtful_, _ignorant_.
win, _go_, _get_, _get on_.
winna, _will not_.
wistna, _knew not_.
wode, _mad_.
wode, _went_.
wodys, _woods_.
woest, _saddest_.
wolwarde, _without linen next the body_.
wone, _dwell_;
wonnynge, _dwelling_.
woo, _sad_.
woodweele, variously explained as _woodpecker_, _thrush_, _wood-lark_,
_red-breast_.
worthe, _be_.
wroken, _revenged_.
wrist, 258?
wyght, _strong_.
wynne, _go_.
wystly, _wistfully_, _intently_.
wyte, 400, wytte, _know_.
xal, xul, _shall_.
y-dyght, _furnished_, _prepared_.
yede, yeed, _went_.
yeff, _if_.
yeffell, _ill_.
yeft, _gift_.
yeman, _yeoman_;
yemanrey, 22, yeomandrie, _yeomanry_, _what becomes a yeoman_.
yend, _yonder_.
yer, _years_.
yerdes, _rods_, _wands_.
ye'se, _you shall_.
yever, _ever_.
y-founde, _found_.
ylke, _same_.
yode, _went_.
Yole, Yule, _Christmas_.
yonder, _under_.
y-slaw, _slain_.
zade, _went_.
zare, _readily_, _quickly_.
zatis, _gates_.
ze, _the_.
zelpe, _boast_.
zemen, _yeomen_.
zet, _yet_.
zete, _eat_.
zeue, _give_.
zone, _yon_.
zouyn, _given_.
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Transcriber's Notes
Page iv Table of Contents: changed "Landsdale" to "Lands-dale" (13. By
Lands-dale hey ho)
Page ix: Footnote [**] added closing quotation mark (... like as it
hadde be _Robyn Hode and his meynè_.")
Page xvi: added closing quotation mark (... "_poar cas qil ne poait
pluis travailler_".)
Page 125: deleted comma after "according" (... which, according to
Wyntown, was also frequented by Robin Hood ...)
Page 132, line 64: added sentence final period (In seven yere before.)
Page 141: note references to lines 71 and 72 ammended to 70 and 71
respectively.
Page 212: added closing quotation mark (... in the collection of
Anthony à Wood.")
Page 254, line 62: added opening quotation mark ("Thy bags and coat
give me;)
Page 270, line 60: added closing quotation mark (Aye, and all their
white monèy.")
Page 280, line 44: added opening quotation mark ("My name it is Allin
a Dale.")
Page 281, line 62: added closing quotation mark ("I prithee now tell
unto me:")