change clothes with him and to give him some hints how to conduct
himself. Thus prepared he attempts to attach himself to three palmers,
who, however, do not covet his company. One of the palmers gives John a
whack on the head. We may conjecture, from the course of the story in
#B#, that John serves them all accordingly, and takes from them so much
money that, if he had kept on in this way, he might, as he says, have
bought churches.
The beginning of #A# is very like that of Robin Hood rescuing Three
Squires, #A#; but the disguise is for a different object. We are
reminded again of Hind Horn, and particularly of versions #C#, #G#, #H#,
in which the beggar, after change of clothes, is asked for instructions.
#B.# John is deputed by Robin to go a begging, and asks to be provided
with staff, coat, and bags. He joins four sham beggars, one of whom
takes him a knock on the crown. John makes the dumb to speak and the
halt to run, and bangs them against the wall, then gets from one’s cloak
three hundred pound, and from another’s bag three hundred and three,
which he thinks is doing well enough to warrant his return to Sherwood.
#B# is translated by Anastasius Grün, p. 155.
A
Percy MS., p. 20; Hales and Furnivall, I, 47.
* * * * *
1
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . .
. . . . beggar,’ he sayes,
‘W_i_th none such fellows as thee.’
2
‘I am not in iest,’ said Litle Iohn,
‘I sweare all by the roode;
Change w_i_th mee,’ said Little Iohn,
‘And I will giue thee some boote.’
3
But he has gotten on this old mans gowne,
It reacht not to his wrist;
‘Christ’s curse on’s hart,’ said Litle Iohn,
‘That thinkes my gowne amisse.’
4
But he has gotten on this old mans shoes,
Are clouted nine fold about;
‘Beshrew his hart,’ says Litle Iohn,
‘That bryer or thorne does doubt.
5
‘Wilt teach me some phrase of thy begging?’ says Iohn;
‘I pray thee, tell it mee,
How I may be as beggar-like
As any in my companie.’
6
‘Thou must goe two foote on a staffe,
The third vpon a tree;
Full loud that thou must cry and fare,
When nothing ayleth thee.’
7
But Iohn he walket the hills soe high,
Soe did [he] the hills soe browne;
The ready way that he cold take
Was towards Nottingham towne.
8
But as he was on the hills soe high,
He mett w_i_th palmers three;
Sayes, God you saue, my brethren all,
Now God you saue and see!
9
This seuen yeere I haue you sought;
Before I cold neuer you see!
Said they, Wee had leuer such a cankred carle
Were neuer in our companie.
10
But one of them tooke Litle Iohn on his head,
The blood ran over his eye;
Little Iohn turned him twise about
. . . . . . .
* * * * *
11
‘If I . . . . . . .
As I haue beene but one day,
I shold haue purcchased three of the best churches
That stands by any highway.’
B
#a.# Wood, 401, leaf 33 b. #b.# Garland of 1663, No 16. #c.# Garland
of 1670, No 15. #d.# Pepys, II, 119, No 105.
1
All you that delight to spend some time
With a hey down down a down down
A merry song for to sing,
Vnto me draw neer, and you shall hear
How Little John went a begging.
2
As Robin Hood walked the forrest along,
And all his yeomandree,
Sayes Robin, Some of you must a begging go,
And, Little John, it must be thee.
3
Sayes John, If I must a begging go,
I will have a palmers weed,
With a staff and a coat, and bags of all sort,
The better then I shall speed.
4
Come, give me now a bag for my bread,
And another for my cheese,
And one for a peny, when as I get any,
That nothing I may leese.
5
Now Little John he is a begging gone,
Seeking for some relief;
But of all the beggers he met on the way,
Little John he was the chief.
6
But as he was walking himself alone,
Four beggers he chanced to spy,
Some deaf, and some blind, and some came behind;
Says John, Here’s brave company!
7
‘Good-morrow,’ said John, ‘my brethren dear,
Good fortune I had you to see;
Which way do you go? pray let me know,
For I want some company.
8
‘O what is here to do?’ then said Little John,
‘Why rings all these bells?’ said he;
‘What dog is a hanging? come, let us be ganging,
That we the truth may see.’
9
‘Here is no dog a hanging,’ then one of them said,
‘Good fellow, we tell unto thee;
But here is one dead wil give us cheese and bred,
And it may be one single peny.’
10
‘We have brethren in London,’ another he said,
‘So have we in Coventry,
In Barwick and Dover, and all the world over,
But nere a crookt carril like thee.
11
‘Therefore stand thee back, thou crooked carel,
And take that knock on the crown;’
‘Nay,’ said Little John, ‘I’le not yet be gone,
For a bout will I have with you round.
12
‘Now have at you all,’ then said Little John,
‘If you be so full of your blows;
Fight on, all four, and nere give ore,
Whether you be friends or foes.’
13
John nipped the dumb, and made him to rore,
And the blind that could not see,
And he that a cripple had been seven years,
He made him run faster then he.
14
And flinging them all against the wall,
With many a sturdie bang,
It made John sing, to hear the gold ring,
Which against the walls cryed twang.
15
Then he got out of the beggers cloak
Three hundred pound in gold;
‘Good fortune had I,’ then said Little John,
‘Such a good sight to behold.’
16
But what found he in a beggers bag,
But three hundred pound and three?
‘If I drink water while this doth last,
Then an ill death may I dye!
17
‘And my begging-trade I will now give ore,
My fortune hath bin so good;
Therefore I’le not stay, but I will away
To the forrest of merry Sherwood.’
18
And when to the forrest of Sherwood he came,
He quickly there did see
His master good, bold Robin Hood,
And all his company.
19
‘What news? What news?’ then said Robin Hood,
‘Come, Little John, tell unto me;
How hast thou sped with thy beggers trade?
For that I fain would see.’
20
‘No news but good,’ then said Little John,
‘With begging ful wel I have sped;
Six hundred and three I have here for thee,
In silver and gold so red.’
21
Then Robin took Little John by the hand,
And danced about the oak-tree:
‘If we drink water while this doth last,
Then an il death may we die!’
22
So to conclude my merry new song,
All you that delight it to sing,
’Tis of Robin Hood, that archer good,
And how Little John went a begging.
* * * * *
#A.#
_Half a page wanting at the beginning, and after 10^3._
3^2. his crest.
4^2. 9.
6^1. 2.
6^2. 3^d.
8^2, 11^3. 3.
9^1. 7.
9^3. had neuer.
10^2. him 2[s :].
#B. a.#
Little John and the Four Beggers: A new merry song of Robin Hood
and Little John, shewing how Little John went a begging, and how
he fought with Four Beggers, and what a prize he got of the Four
Beggers.
The tune is, Robin Hood and the Begger.
Printed for William Gilber[t]son. (1640–63.)
13^4. them _for_ him.
14^4. Whih again.
22^4. beggiug.
#b.#
_Title as in_ #a#.
11^2. on thy.
11^4. I will.
12^3. never.
13^4. made him.
14^4. again.
20^3. Three hundred.
#c.#
_Title as in #a#, except_: from these four Beggers. To the tune of
Robin Hood and the Begger.
_Burden_: _last_ down _wanting_.
8^3. a _wanting_: let’s.
9^2. I _for_ we.
10^1. he _wanting_.
12^3. never.
13^4. made him: than.
14^4. against.
19^4. I fain would fain.
20^1. then _wanting_.
20^3. Three hundred.
22^2. it _wanting_.
#d.#
_Title as in #a#, except_: Or, a new. To the tune of Robin Hood,
&c.
Printed for J. Wright, J. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passenger.
(1670–86?)
1^2. for _wanting_.
3^3. sorts.
3^4. then shall I.
4^3. as _wanting_.
5^{1,4}. he _wanting_.
7^1. my children.
10^2. in the Country.
13^4. made run then.
14^4. against.
16^1. in the.
17^2. it hath.
18^1. But when.
19^3. with the.
22^2. And you.
143
ROBIN HOOD AND THE BISHOP
‘Robin Hood and the Bishop.’ #a.# Wood, 401, leaf 11 b.
#b.# Garland of 1663, No 5.
#c.# Garland of 1670, No 4.
#d.# Pepys, II, 109, No 96.
#e.# Roxburghe, I, 362, in the Ballad Societys reprint, II, 448.
Also Pepys, II, 122, No 107, by Alexander Milbourne (1670–97): Old
Ballads, 1723, II, 39.
#a# is printed in Ritson’s Robin Hood, 1795, II, 19. Evans, Old Ballads,
1777, 1784, I, 102, apparently follows the Aldermary Churchyard garland.
Robin Hood, while ranging the forest, sees a bishop and all his men
coming, and, knowing that if he is taken no mercy will be given him,
asks the help of an old woman, to whom he makes himself known. The old
woman has had a kindness from him, and wishes to return it. She consents
to exchange her gray coat and spindle for his green mantle and arrows,
and Robin makes for his band in this disguise. The bishop carries off
the old woman on a horse, making no doubt that he has Robin in custody,
but, as he proceeds through the wood, sees a hundred bowmen, and asks
his prisoner what this may be. I think it be Robin Hood, says the
supposed outlaw. “And who are you?” “Why, I am an old woman.” The bishop
turns about, but Robin stays him, ties him to a tree, takes five hundred
pound from his portmantle, and then is willing he should go. But Little
John will not let him off till he has sung a mass; after which the
bishop is mounted on his dapple-gray, with his face to the tail, and
told to pray for Robin Hood.
This ballad and the following are variations upon the theme of Robin
Hood and the Monk, in the Gest. The disguise as a woman occurs in other
outlaw stories; as in Eustace the Monk, Michel, p. 43. Also in Blind
Harry’s Wallace, ed. Moir, Book I, 239, and Book IV, 764, pp 9, 72: in
the first case Wallace has a rock and sits spinning. See also the ballad
of Gude Wallace, further on.
We hear again of the forced mass, st. 23, in Robin Hood and Queen
Katherine, #A# 31, #B# 40; and of money borrowed against the bishop’s
will, in #A# 32 of the same. It is the Bishop of Hereford who suffers:
see the ballad which follows.
Translated by Doenniges, p. 203; Anastasius Grün, p. 113.
1
Come, gentlemen all, and listen a while,
Hey down down an a down
And a story I’le to you unfold;
I’le tell you how Robin Hood served the Bishop,
When he robbed him of his gold.
2
As it fell out on a sun-shining day,
When Phebus was in his prime,
Then Robin Hood, that archer good,
In mirth would spend some time.
3
And as he walkd the forrest along,
Some pastime for to spy,
There was he aware of a proud bishop,
And all his company.
4
‘O what shall I do?’ said Robin Hood then,
‘If the Bishop he doth take me,
No mercy he’l show unto me, I know,
But hanged I shall be.’
5
Then Robin was stout, and turnd him about,
And a little house there he did spy;
And to an old wife, for to save his life,
He loud began for to cry.
6
‘Why, who art thou?’ said the old woman,
‘Come tell it to me for good:’
‘I am an out-law, as many do know,
My name it is Robin Hood.
7
‘And yonder’s the Bishop and all his men,
And if that I taken be,
Then day and night he’l work me spight,
And hanged I shall be.’
8
‘If thou be Robin Hood,’ said the old wife,
‘As thou dost seem to be,
I’le for thee provide, and thee I will hide
From the Bishop and his company.
9
‘For I well remember, one Saturday night
Thou bought me both shoos and hose;
Therefore I’le provide thy person to hide,
And keep thee from thy foes.’
10
‘Then give me soon thy coat of gray,
And take thou my mantle of green;
Thy spindle and twine unto me resign,
And take thou my arrows so keen.’
11
And when that Robin Hood was so araid,
He went straight to his company;
With his spindle and twine, he oft lookt behind
For the Bishop and his company.
12
‘O who is yonder,’ quoth Little John,
‘That now comes over the lee?
An arrow I will at her let flie,
So like an old witch looks she.’
13
‘O hold thy hand, hold thy hand,’ said Robin then,
‘And shoot not thy arrows so keen;
I am Robin Hood, thy master good,
And quickly it shall be seen.’
14
The Bishop he came to the old womans house,
And he called with furious mood,
‘Come let me soon see, and bring unto me,
That traitor Robin Hood.’
15
The old woman he set on a milk-white steed,
Himselfe on a dapple-gray,
And for joy he had got Robin Hood,
He went laughing all the way.
16
But as they were riding the forrest along,
The Bishop he chanc’d for to see
A hundred brave bow-men bold
Stand under the green-wood tree.
17
‘O who is yonder,’ the Bishop then said,
‘That’s ranging within yonder wood?’
‘Marry,’ says the old woman, ‘I think it to be
A man calld Robin Hood.’
18
‘Why, who art thou,’ the Bishop he said,
‘Which I have here with me?’
‘Why, I am an old woman, thou cuckoldly bishop;
Lift up my leg and see.’
19
‘Then woe is me,’ the Bishop he said,
‘That ever I saw this day!’
He turnd him about, but Robin so stout
Calld him, and bid him stay.
20
Then Robin took hold of the Bishops horse,
And ty’d him fast to a tree;
Then Little John smil’d his master upon,
For joy of that company.
21
Robin Hood took his mantle from’s back,
And spread it upon the ground,
And out of the Bishops portmantle he
Soon told five hundred pound.
22
‘So now let him go,’ said Robin Hood;
Said Little John, That may not be;
For I vow and protest he shall sing us a mass
Before that he goe from me.
23
Then Robin Hood took the Bishop by the hand,
And bound him fast to a tree,
And made him sing a mass, God wot,
To him and his yeomandree.
24
And then they brought him through the wood,
And set him on his dapple-gray,
And gave the tail within his hand,
And bade him for Robin Hood pray.
* * * * *
#a.#
Robin Hood and the Bishop: Shewing how Robin Hood went to an old
womans house and changed cloaths with her, to scape from the
Bishop; and how he robbed the Bishop of all his gold, and made
him sing a mass. To the tune of Robin Hood and the Stranger.
London, Printed for F. Grove on Snow-Hill. (1620–55.)
_Burden_: _sometimes_ With a hey, _etc._; With hey, _etc._
2^2. her _for_ his: _cf._ #b#, #c#.
8^2. doth: _cf._ #b#, #c#, #d#, #e#.
9^1. on _for_ one: _cf._ #e#.
16^2. chance.
#b.#
_Title as in #a#. Burden: with the same variations as in #a#._
2^2. in his.
5^4. for _wanting_.
8^1. then said.
8^2. dost.
9^1. on.
14^3. soon _wanting_.
16^2. chanc’d.
17^1. then _wanting_.
17^2. yonders.
18^3. cuckoldy.
19^1. to me.
19^3. Robin Hood.
#c.#
_Title as in #a#. Burden: always_ With a hey, _etc._
2^2. in his.
4^4. _wanting._
5^{3,4}. for _wanting_.
8^2. dost.
9^1. on.
16^1. long.
16^2. chanced.
17^1. he said.
18^3. cuckoldy.
19^1. to me.
19^3. Robin Hood.
24^4. bid.
#d.#
_Title as in #a#, except_, escape: robbed him: sing mass.
_Burden_: With a hey down down and a down.
2^1. of a.
2^2. in her.
2^3. That _for_ Then.
4^4. shall I.
5^4. for _wanting_.
7^3. my _for_ me.
8^1. old woman.
8^2. dost.
9^1. well _wanting_: on.
11^1. that _wanting_: thus _for_ so.
13^1. Robin Hood.
16^2. chanc’d.
18^3. am a woman: cuckoldy.
19^3. Robin Hood.
20^4. of his.
22^1. So _wanting_.
23^1. by’th.
24^1. And when.
#e.#
_Title as in #a#, except_, escape: robbed him: sing mass.
London, Printed by and for W. O[nley], _etc._ (1650–1702.)
_Burden_: With a hey down down an a down.
1^2. to you I’ll.
1^3. to you.
2^1. of a.
2^2. in her.
2^3. Bold Robin Hood.
3^3. he _wanting_. (?)
4^1. saith.
4^4. shall I.
5^2. did he.
5^3. for _wanting_.
5^4. aloud began to.
7^3. my _for_ me.
7^4. shall I.
8^1. then said the old woman.
8^2. dost.
9^1. well _wanting_: one.
9^2. brought.
10^2. the _for_ my.
11^1. thus _for_ so.
11^3. and _wanting_.
12^3. at her I will.
13^1. saith.
16^2. chanc’d.
17^4. A _wanting_.
18^3. am a woman.
19^3. Robin Hood.
19^4. to him.
20^4. of this.
22^1. So _wanting_.
23^1. by th’.
144
ROBIN HOOD AND THE BISHOP OF HEREFORD
#A. a.# Robin Hood’s Garland, London, J. Marshall & Co., Aldermary
Churchyard, No 23. #b.# ‘Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford,’
Douce Ballads, III, 123 b, London, C. Sheppard, 1791. #c.#
Chappell’s Popular Music of the Olden Time, p. 395, from a broadside
printed for Daniel Wright, next the Sun Tavern in Holborn. #d.#
Robin Hood’s Garland, 1749, No 23.
#B.# E. Cochrane’s Song-Book, p. 149, No 113.
#A a# in Ritson’s Robin Hood, 1795, II, 146, “compared with the York
copy,” that is, with two or three slight changes: Evans, Old Ballads,
1777, 1784, I, 211. #B#, the Scottish copy, is very likely only an
imperfect remembrance of a broadside, but the date of the MS., though
this is perhaps not determinable, has been put as early as 1730.
Robin Hood, expecting the Bishop of Hereford to pass near Barnsdale, has
a deer killed for his dinner. He dresses himself and six of his men in
shepherd’s attire, and when the Bishop approaches they make an ado to
attract his attention. The Bishop interrogates them. Robin owns that
they mean to make merry with the king’s venison. The Bishop will show
them no mercy; they must go before the king with him. Robin summons his
band with his horn and it is the Bishop’s turn to cry mercy. Robin will
not let him off, but takes him to Barnsdale, and makes him great cheer.
The Bishop foresees that there will be a heavy reckoning. Little John
searches the Bishop’s portmanteau, and takes out three hundred pound;
enough, he says, to make him in charity with the churchman. They make
the Bishop dance in his boots, #A#, or sing a mass, #B#, and he is glad
to get off so lightly.
The Bishop of Hereford appears in the next ballad, Robin Hood and Queen
Katherine. He there tells us that Robin had made him sing a mass out of
hours, and had borrowed money of him against his will.
The conclusion of this ballad is to the same effect as that of the
preceding, and was probably suggested by the Gest. No copy has been
found, in print or writing, earlier than the last century; a fact of no
special importance. Whenever written, if written it was, it is far
superior to most of the seventeenth century broadsides. Mr Chappell
speaks of it as being now (thirty years ago) the most popular of the
Robin Hood set.
Translated by Talvj, Charakteristik, p. 493; Anastasius Grün, p. 151;
Loève-Veimars, p. 204.
A
#a.# Robin Hood’s Garland, Aldermary Churchyard, No 23. #b.# Douce
Ballads, III, 123 b, 1791. #c.# Chappell’s Popular Music of the
Olden Time, p. 395, from a broadside printed for Daniel Wright, #d.#
Robin Hood’s Garland, without place, 1749, No 23, p. 98.
1
Some they will talk of bold Robin Hood,
And some of barons bold,
But I’ll tell you how he servd the Bishop of Hereford,
When he robbd him of his gold.
2
As it befel in merry Barnsdale,
And under the green-wood tree,
The Bishop of Hereford was to come by,
With all his company.
3
‘Come, kill a venson,’ said bold Robin Hood,
‘Come, kill me a good fat deer;
The Bishop of Hereford is to dine with me to-day,
And he shall pay well for his cheer.
4
‘We’ll kill a fat venson,’ said bold Robin Hood,
‘And dress it by the highway-side;
And we will watch the Bishop narrowly,
Lest some other way he should ride.’
5
Robin Hood dressd himself in shepherd’s attire,
With six of his men also;
And, when the Bishop of Hereford came by,
They about the fire did go.
6
‘O what is the matter?’ then said the Bishop,
‘Or for whom do you make this a-do?
Or why do you kill the king’s venson,
When your company is so few?’
7
‘We are shepherds,’ said bold Robin Hood,
‘And we keep sheep all the year,
And we are disposed to be merry this day,
And to kill of the king’s fat deer.’
8
‘You are brave fellows!’ said the Bishop,
‘And the king of your doings shall know;
Therefore make haste and come along with me,
For before the king you shall go.’
9 ‘O pardon, O pardon,’ said bold Robin Hood,
‘O pardon, I thee pray!
For it becomes not your lordship’s coat
To take so many lives away.’
10
‘No pardon, no pardon,’ says the Bishop,
‘No pardon I thee owe;
Therefore make haste, and come along with me,
For before the king you shall go.’
11
Then Robin set his back against a tree,
And his foot against a thorn,
And from underneath his shepherd’s coat
He pulld out a bugle-horn.
12
He put the little end to his mouth,
And a loud blast did he blow,
Till threescore and ten of bold Robin’s men
Came running all on a row;
13
All making obeysance to bold Robin Hood;
’Twas a comely sight for to see:
‘What is the matter, master,’ said Little John,
‘That you blow so hastily?’
14
‘O here is the Bishop of Hereford,
And no pardon we shall have:’
‘Cut off his head, master,’ said Little John,
‘And throw him into his grave.’
15
‘O pardon, O pardon,’ said the Bishop,
‘O pardon, I thee pray!
For if I had known it had been you,
I’d have gone some other way.’
16
‘No pardon, no pardon,’ said Robin Hood,
‘No pardon I thee owe;
Therefore make haste and come along with me,
For to merry Barnsdale you shall go.’
17
Then Robin he took the Bishop by the hand,
And led him to merry Barnsdale;
He made him to stay and sup with him that night,
And to drink wine, beer, and ale.
18
‘Call in the reckoning,’ said the Bishop,
‘For methinks it grows wondrous high:’
‘Lend me your purse, Bishop,’ said Little John,
‘And I’ll tell you bye and bye.’
19
Then Little John took the bishop’s cloak,
And spread it upon the ground,
And out of the bishop’s portmantua
He told three hundred pound.
20
‘Here’s money enough, master,’ said Little John,
‘And a comely sight ’tis to see;
It makes me in charity with the Bishop,
Tho he heartily loveth not me.’
21
Robin Hood took the Bishop by the hand,
And he caused the music to play,
And he made the Bishop to dance in his boots,
And glad he could so get away.
B
E. Cochrane’s Song-Book, p. 149, No 113.
1
Some talk of lords, and some talk of lairds,
And some talk of barrons bold,
But I’ll tell you a story of bold Robin Hood,
How he robbed the Bishop of his gold.
2
‘Cause kill us a venison,’ sayes Robin Hood,
‘And we’ll dress it by the high-way side,
And we will watch narrowly for the Bishop,
Lest some other way he do ride.’
3
‘Now who is this,’ sayes the Bishop,
‘That makes so boldly here
To kill the king’s poor small venison,
And so few of his company here?’
4
‘We are shepherds,’ says Robin Hood,
‘And do keep sheep all the year;
And we thought it fit to be merry on a day,
And kill one of the king’s fallow deer.’
5
‘Thou art a bold fellow,’ the Bishop replyes,
‘And your boldness you do show;
Make hast, make hast, and go along with me,
For the king of your doings shall know.’
6
He leand his back unto a brae,
His foot against a thorn,
And out from beneath his long shepherds coat
He pulled a blowing-horn.
7
He put his horn in to his mouth,
And a snell blast he did blow,
Till four and twenty of bold Robins men
Came riding up all in a row.
8
‘Come, give us a reckoning,’ says the Bishop,
‘For I think you drink wondrous large:’
‘Come, give me your purse,’ said bold Robin Hood,
‘And I will pay all your charge.’
9
He pulled off his long shepherds coat,
And he spread it on the ground,
And out of the Bishops long trunk-hose,
He pulled a hundred pound.
10
‘O master,’ quoth Litle John,
‘It’s a very bony sight for to see;
It makes me to favour the Bishop,
Tho in heart he loves not me.’
11
‘Come, sing us a mass,’ sayes bold Robin Hood,
‘Come, sing us a mass all anon;
Come, sing us a mass,’ sayes bold Robin Hood,
‘Take a kick in the a—se, and be gone.’
* * * * *
#A. a.#
The Bishop of Hereford’s Entertainment by Robin Hood and Little
John, &c., in merry Barnsdale.
8^4. Forr.
18^3. master _for_ Bishop: _cf._ #b#.
#b.#
London, Published April 7th, 1791, by C. Sheppard, No 19, Lambert
Hill, Doctors Commons.
3^3. ’s to.
7^4. to taste.
10^1. said.
11^4. out his.
12^2. he did.
12^3. Robin Hood’s.
13^2. for _wanting_.
13^3. What’s.
14^2. Says no.
17^1. he _wanting_.
17^3. him stay and dine with him that day.
18^2. For I think.
18^3. bishop _for_ master.
20^3. me have charity for.
21^3. And _wanting_: the old.
#c.#
_Title as in_ #a#.
1^1. O some: of brave.
1^3. ye.
1^4. And robbd.
2^1. All under.
3^1. kill me.
3^3. ’s to.
10^1. said.
16^1. said bold.
18^1. in a.
18^3. purse, master.
21^3. the old.
#d.#
_Title as in_ #a#: &c _wanting_.
1^1. they _wanting_.
1^3. of Hereford _wanting_.
1^4. his _wanting_.
3^1. Hood _wanting_.
3^3. to-day _wanting_.
3^4. well _wanting_.
4^1. kill the vension.
5^1. Hood he.
5^2. And six: men likewise.
5^4. Then _for_ They.
6^1. then _wanting_.
6^3. of the.
6^4. And your: so small.
7^1. Hood _wanting_.
9^1. bold _wanting_.
10^1. said.
10^4. you must.
11^4. out his fine.
12^2. he did.
12^4. marching down in a.
13^3. master _wanting_.
14^4. into the.
15^4. I would: gone another.
16^1. bold Robin: Hood _wanting_.
17^1. he _wanting_.
17^2. And he.
17^3. to _wanting_.
18^1. in a.
18^2. Methinks it runs.
18^3. master _wanting_.
19^3. portmantle.
19^4. He took.
20^1. master _wanting_.
20^2. And it is: ’tis _wanting_.
21^1. Robin he took.
21^2. he _wanting_.
21^3. And _wanting_.
21^4. so _wanting_.
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ROBIN HOOD AND QUEEN KATHERINE
#A.# ‘Robin Hoode and Quene Kath[erine],’ Percy MS., p. 15; Hales and
Furnivall, I, 37.
#B.# ‘Renowned Robin Hood,’ etc. #a.# Wood, 502, leaf 10. #b.#
Roxburghe, I, 356, in the Ballad Society’s reprint, II, 419. #c.#
Garland of 1663, No 9. #d.# Garland of 1670, No 8. #e.# Wood, 401,
leaf 31 b. #f.# Pepys, II, 103, No 90.
#C.# ‘Robin Hood, Scarlet and John,’ etc., Garland of 1663, No 1.
A copy in Roxburghe, III, 450, printed by L. How, in Petticoat Lane, is
of the eighteenth century. In Ritson’s Robin Hood, 1795, II, 82, “from
an old black-letter copy in a private collection, compared with another
in that of Anthony a Wood.” In Evans’s Old Ballads, 1777, 1784, I, 149,
from an Aldermary garland.