LONDON: SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD

POPULAR BALLADS

OF THE OLDEN TIME

SELECTED AND EDITED

BY FRANK SIDGWICK

Fourth Series. Ballads of

Robin Hood and other

Outlaws

'Come sit we downe under this Hawthorne tree,

The morrowes light shall lend us daie enough,

And tell a tale of Gawen or Sir Guy,

Of Robin Hood, or of good Clem of the Clough.'

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--C'est une vieille chanson.

--Qui l'a faite?

--On ne sait pas.

--Quand?

--On ne sait pas.

--Quand tu étais petit?

--Avant que je fusse au monde, avant qu'y fût mon père,

et le père de mon père, et le père du père de mon père.

Cela a toujours été.

--ROLLAND, _L'Aube_.

CONTENTS

Page

Preface vii

Introduction to the Robin Hood Ballads xi

A GEST OF ROBYN HODE 1

The First Fytte 5

The Second Fytte 20

The Third Fytte 32

The Fourth Fytte 43

The Fifth Fytte 57

The Sixth Fytte 64

The Seventh Fytte 72

The Eighth Fytte 84

ROBIN AND GANDELEYN 92

ROBIN HOOD AND THE MONK 96

ROBIN HOOD AND THE POTTER 113

ROBIN HOOD AND GUY OF GISBORNE 128

ROBIN HOOD'S DEATH 140

ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH AND

WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLY 147

JOHNNY O' COCKLEY'S WELL 177

THE OUTLAW MURRAY 183

SIR ANDREW BARTON 196

HENRY MARTYN 213

JOHN DORY 216

CAPTAIN WARD AND THE RAINBOW 219

THE SWEET TRINITY 224

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