29^1. in it said.
30^3. Will.
31^1. the kings.
31^4. thy knee.
32^4. part _wanting_.
35^2. crave it.
35^3. would _for_ will.
36^4. welcome every one.
37^3. And so.
38^1. said now.
39^1. quoth _for_ said.
39^3. it had.
39^4. not a bet.
40^1. on Saturday night.
40^4. yeomen three.
41^1. then says.
42^2. may not.
#C.#
Robin Hood, Scarlet and John: Wherein you may see how Robin Hood,
having lived an out-law many years, the Queen sent for him, and
shooting a match before the King and Queen at London, and
winning the rich prize, the Queen gained his pardon, and he was
afterwards Earl of Huntington.
To the tune of The Pinder of Wakefield.
20^3. what or.
26^1. archers.
27^3. yonng.
28^3. Katheline.
30^{1,3}. qd.
146
ROBIN HOOD’S CHASE
#a.# Garland of 1663, No 15.
#b.# Garland of 1670, No 14.
#c.# Wood, 401, leaf 29 b.
#d.# Pepys, II, 104, No 91.
Roxburghe, III, 14, 418; Douce, III, 121 b, London, by L. How, an
eighteenth-century copy. #c# is signed T. R., and has no printer’s name.
Reprinted in Ritson’s Robin Hood, 1795, II, 92, from #c#. Evans, Old
Ballads, 1777, 1784, I, 156, agrees nearly with the Aldermary garland.
Robin Hood’s Chase is a sequel to Robin Hood and Queen Katherine, and
begins with a summary of that ballad. King Henry, who has been gracious,
and over-gracious, to the outlaw, has a revulsion of feeling after Robin
has left his presence, and sets out in pursuit of him. When the king
reaches Nottingham, Robin leaves Sherwood for Yorkshire, whence he
speeds successively to Newcastle, Berwick, Carlisle, Lancaster, Chester,
the king always following him close. At Chester the happy idea occurs to
him of going back to London, as if to inquire whether he were wanted.
Queen Katherine informs Robin that the king has gone to Sherwood to seek
him, and Robin says he will return to the forest immediately to learn
the king’s will. King Henry, coming home weary and vexed, is told by his
queen that Robin has been there to seek him. A cunning knave, quoth the
king. The queen intercedes for Robin.
This is a well-conceived ballad, and only needs to be older.
Translated by A. Grün, p. 169, with omission of stanzas 1–7, 24.
1
Come you gallants all, to you I do call,
With a hey down down a down down
That now is within this place,
For a song I will sing of Henry the king,
How he did Robin Hood chase.
2
Queen Katherine she a match then did make,
As plainly doth appear,
For three hundred tun of good red wine,
And three hundred tun of beer.
3
But yet her archers she had to seek,
With their bows and arrows so good;
But her mind it was bent, with a good intent,
To send for bold Robin Hood.
4
But when bold Robin Hood he came there,
Queen Katherine she did say,
Thou art welcome, Locksley, said the queen,
And all thy yeomen gay.
5
For a match at shooting I have made,
And thou my part must be:
‘If I miss the mark, be it light or dark,
Then hanged I will be.’
6
But when the game came to be playd,
Bold Robin he then drew nigh;
With his mantle of green, most brave to be seen,
He let his arrows fly.
7
And when the game it ended was,
Bold Robin wan it with a grace,
But after, the king was angry with him,
And vowed he would him chase.
8
What though his pardon granted was
While he with them did stay,
But yet the king was vexed at him
When as he was gone his way.
9
Soon after the king from the court did hie,
In a furious angry mood,
And often enquire, both far and near,
After bold Robin Hood.
10
But when the king to Nottingham came,
Bold Robin was then in the wood;
‘O come now,’ said he, ‘and let me see
Who can find me bold Robin Hood.’
11
But when that Robin Hood he did hear
The king had him in chase,
Then said Little John, Tis time to be gone,
And go to some other place.
12
Then away they went from merry Sherwood,
And into Yorkshire he did hie,
And the king did follow, with a hoop and a hallow,
But could not come him nigh.
13
Yet jolly Robin he passed along,
He [went] straight to Newcastle town,
And there stayed he hours two or three,
And then he for Berwick was gone.
14
When the king he did see how Robin did flee,
He was vexed wondrous sore;
With a hoop and a hallow he vowed to follow,
And take him, or never give ore.
15
‘Come now, let’s away,’ then cries Little John,
‘Let any man follow that dare;
To Carlile wee’l hie with our company,
And so then to Lancaster.’
16
From Lancaster then to Chester they went,
And so did king Henery;
But Robin away, for he durst not stay,
For fear of some treachery.
17
Saies Robin, Come, let us to London go,
To see our noble queens face;
It may be she wants our company,
Which makes the king so us chase.
18
When Robin he came Queen Katherine before,
He fell upon his knee:
‘If it please your Grace, I am come to this place,
To speak with king Henery.’
19
Queen Katherine she answered bold Robin again,
The king is gone to merry Sherwood;
And when he went he to me did say
He would go seek Robin Hood.
20
‘Then fare you well, my gracious queen,
For to Sherwood I will hie apace;
For fain would I see what he would with me,
If I could but meet with his Grace.’
21
But when King Henery he came home,
Full weary, and vexed in mind,
When he did hear Robin had been there,
He blamed Dame Fortune unkind.
22
‘You are welcome home,’ Queen Katherine cried,
‘Henry, my soveraign liege;
Bold Robin Hood, that archer good,
Your person hath been to seek.’
23
But when King Henry he did hear
That Robin had been there him to seek,
This answer he gave, He’s a cunning knave,
For I have sought him this whole three weeks.
24
‘A boon! a boon!’ Queen Katherine cried,
‘I beg it here on your Grace,
To pardon his life, and seek no more strife:’
And so endeth Robin Hoods chase.
* * * * *
#a#, #b#, #c#.
Robin Hood’s Chase: or, A merry progress between Robin Hood and
King Henry, shewing how Robin Hood led the King his chase from
London to London, and when he had taken his leave of the Queen
he returned to merry Sherwood.
To the tune of Robin Hood and the Begger.
#a.#
_Burden_: _variously printed_ With a hey, etc., With hey, etc.;
_twice_ Down a down a down.
5^{2,3}. Robin _between the lines, to show that what follows is
his speech. So #b#, #c#. In #d#_ Robin _stands at the head of
the third line_.
21^3. But when: _so_ #b#, #c#.
23^4, 3 weeks.
#b.#
_Burden_: With hey, etc., _or_, With a hey, etc.
2^1. she then a match.
3^1. she had her archers.
6^1. game it.
7^2. a _wanting_.
10^2. then _wanting_.
11^1. that bold.
13^2. went _wanting_.
14^4. and _for_ or.
15^1. cry’d.
16^2. good King Henry.
18^4. Henry.
21^3. But when.
23^2. there _wanting_.
23^4. 3 weeks.
24^2. here on my knee.
#c.#
_Signed_ T. R. _No printer._
_Burden_: With hey down down an a down.
2^4. hundred _wanting_.
3^3. it _wanting_.
5^1. of _for_ at.
6^1. it came.
8^3. after _for_ yet.
10^2. then _wanting_.
13^2. went _wanting_.
16^2, 18^4, 21^1. Henry.
16^3. to stay.
18^2. fell low.
18^4. For to.
21^3. But when.
22^2. leech.
23^4. 3 weeks.
#d.#
_Title as in_ #a#, #b#, #c#, _except_: The tune is.
Printed for William Thackeray at the Angel in Duck-Lane. (1689.)
_Burden_: With hey down down a down.
2^1. then a match did.
3^1. yet she had her archers.
5^1. of _for_ at.
5^2. on my.
5^4. will I.
6^2. he _wanting_.
7^2. a _wanting_.
8^4. had _for_ was.
10^2. O bold: then _wanting_.
10^3. Come said he.
11^1. that bold Robin he.
13^2. And went strait.
13^3. he stayed.
13^4, 14^1. he _wanting_.
14^4. gave.
15^1. than said Little.
16^2, 18^4, 21^1. Henry.
17^1. for London.
18^2. fell low.
18^4. For to.
19^3. he _wanting_.
19^4. go to.
20^3. what he’d have.
21^3. And that he.
22^1. You’re.
23^2. there _wanting_.
23^3. He is a.
23^4. 3 week.
24^2. of your.
147
ROBIN HOOD’S GOLDEN PRIZE
#a.# Wood, 401, leaf 39 b.
#b.# Garland of 1663, No 14.
#c.# Garland of 1670, No 13.
#d.# Pepys, II, 114, No 101.
Also Roxburghe, III, 12, 486; Old Ballads, 1723, II, 121; Douce, III,
121, London, by L. How, of the last century.
Ritson’s Robin Hood, 1795, II, 97, from #a#, with changes. Evans, Old
Ballads, 1777, 1784, I, 160, agrees nearly with the Aldermary garland.
Entered, says Ritson, in the Stationers’ book, by Francis Grove, 2d
June, 1656.[118] Being directed to be sung to the tune “R. H. was a tall
young man,” that is, R. H.’s Progress to Nottingham, this ballad is the
later of the two.
Robin Hood, disguised as a friar, asks charity of two priests. They
pretend to have been robbed, and not to have a penny. Robin pulls them
from their horses, saying, Since you have no money, we will pray for
some, and keeps them at their prayers for an hour. Now, he says, we will
see what heaven has sent us; but the monks can find nothing in their
pockets. We must search one another, Robin says, and beginning the
operation finds five hundred pounds on the monks. Of this he gives fifty
pounds to each of the priests to pay for their prayers, keeping the
remainder. The priests would now move on, but Robin requires three oaths
of them, of truth, chastity and charity, before he lets them go.
The kernel of the story is an old tale which we find represented in
Pauli’s Schimpf und Ernst, 1533, Österley, p. 397, Anhang, No 14, ‘Wie
drey lantzknecht vmb ein zerung batten.’ Three soldiers, out of service,
meet the cellarer of a rich Benedictine cloister, who has a bag hanging
at his saddle-bow, with four hundred ducats in it. They ask for some
money, for God’s sake and good fellowship’s. The cellarer answers that
he has no money: there is nothing but letters in his bag. Then, since we
all four are without money, they say, we will kneel down and pray for
some. After a brief orison, the three jump up, search the bag, and find
four hundred ducats. The cellarer offers them a handsome douceur, and
says he had the money in the bag before; but to this they will give no
credence. They give the monk his share of one hundred, and thank God
devoutly for his grace. Retold by Waldis, with a supplement, Esopus, IV,
21, ed. Kurz, II, 64; and by others, see Oesterley’s notes, p. 552,
Kurz’s, p. 156.
#a# seems to be signed L. P., and these would most naturally be the
initials of the versifier.
Translated by Doenniges, p. 198, by Anastasius Grün, p. 131.
1
I have heard talk of bold Robin Hood,
Derry derry down
And of brave Little John,
Of Fryer Tuck, and Will Scarlet,
Loxley, and Maid Marion.
Hey down derry derry down
2
But such a tale as this before
I think there was never none;
For Robin Hood disguised himself,
And to the wood is gone.
3
Like to a fryer, bold Robin Hood
Was accoutered in his array;
With hood, gown, beads and crucifix,
He past upon the way.
4
He had not gone [past] miles two or three,
But it was his chance to spy
Two lusty priests, clad all in black,
Come riding gallantly.
5
‘Benedicete,’ then said Robin Hood,
‘Some pitty on me take;
Cross you my hand with a silver groat,
For Our dear Ladies sake.
6
‘For I have been wandring all this day,
And nothing could I get;
Not so much as one poor cup of drink,
Nor bit of bread to eat.’
7
‘Now, by my holydame,’ the priests repli’d,
‘We never a peny have;
For we this morning have been robd,
And could no mony save.’
8
‘I am much afraid,’ said bold Robin Hood,
‘That you both do tell a lye;
And now before that you go hence,
I am resolvd to try.’
9
When as the priests heard him say so,
Then they rode away amain;
But Robin Hood betook him to his heels,
And soon overtook them again.
10
Then Robin Hood laid hold of them both,
And pulld them down from their horse:
‘O spare us, fryer!’ the priests cry’d out,
‘On us have some remorse!’
11
‘You said you had no mony,’ quoth he,
‘Wherefore, without delay,
We three will fall down on our knees,
And for mony we will pray.’
12
The priests they could not him gainsay,
But down they kneeled with speed;
‘Send us, O send us,’ then quoth they,
‘Some mony to serve our need.’
13
The priests did pray with mournful chear,
Sometimes their hands did wring,
Sometimes they wept and cried aloud,
Whilst Robin did merrily sing.
14
When they had been praying an hours space,
The priests did still lament;
Then quoth bold Robin, Now let’s see
What mony heaven hath us sent.
15
We will be sharers now all alike
Of the mony that we have;
And there is never a one of us
That his fellows shall deceive.
16
The priests their hands in their pockets put,
But mony would find none:
‘We’l search our selves,’ said Robin Hood,
‘Each other, one by one.’
17
Then Robin Hood took pains to search them both,
And he found good store of gold;
Five hundred peeces presently
Vpon the grass was told.
18
‘Here is a brave show,’ said Robin Hood,
‘Such store of gold to see,
And you shall each one have a part,
Cause you prayed so heartily.’
19
He gave them fifty pound a-peece,
And the rest for himself did keep;
The priests durst not speak one word,
But they sighed wondrous deep.
20
With that the priests rose up from their knees,
Thinking to have parted so;
‘Nay, stay,’ said Robin Hood, ‘one thing more
I have to say ere you go.
21
‘You shall be sworn,’ said bold Robin Hood,
‘Vpon this holy grass,
That you will never tell lies again,
Which way soever you pass.
22
‘The second oath that you here must take,
All the days of your lives
You never shall tempt maids to sin,
Nor lye with other mens wives.
23
‘The last oath you shall take, it is this,
Be charitable to the poor;
Say you have met with a holy fryer,
And I desire no more.’
24
He set them upon their horses again,
And away then they did ride;
And hee returnd to the merry green-wood,
With great joy, mirth and pride.
* * * * *
#a.#
Robin Hoods Golden Prize.
He met two priests upon the way,
And forced them with him to pray.
For gold they prayed, and gold they had,
Enough to make bold Robin glad.
His share came to four hundred pound,
That then was told upon the ground;
Now mark, and you shall hear the jest;
You never heard the like exprest.
Tune is, Robin Hood was a tall young man.
London, Printed for F. Grove on Snow-hill. Entred according to
order. Finis, L. P. F. Grove’s _date, according to Mr Chappell,
is 1620–55. Ritson says that the ballad was entered in the
Stationers’ book by_ Francis Grove, 2d June, 1656.
#b.#
Robin Hoods Golden Prize: Shewing how he robbed two priests of
five hundred pound. The tune is, Robin Hood was a tall young
man.
4^1. gone past.
6^1. all the.
7^1. holy dame: priest.
9^2. Then _wanting_.
10^1. hold on.
13^1. with a.
15^4. fellow.
17^4. he _for_ was.
18^4. For praying so.
19^1. pounds.
19^3. not to.
23^1. it _wanting_.
#c.#
_Title the same_: _except_, Tune is.
2^4. he is.
4^1. gone past.
7^1. holy dame.
9^2. Then _wanting_.
10^1. holt of.
13^1. with a.
15^1. now _wanting_.
15^4. fellow.
17^1. pain: both _wanting_.
18^3. each one shall.
19^1. pounds.
24^1. upon _wanting_.
#d.#
Title as in #c#. Printed for William Thackeray at the Angel in
Duck-lane. (1689.)
1^1. bold _wanting_.
2^2. think was never known.
4^1. gone past.
7^1. holy dame.
8^3. before you do go.
9^1. so say.
10^1. hold on.
11^1. you’d: quoth Robin Hood.
12^2. kneel.
13^1. with a.
14^3. let us.
15^1. now _wanting_.
15^2. the _wanting_.
15^4. fellow.
16^2. could.
17^1. pain: both _wanting_.
17^4. he _for_ was.
18^3. each one shall.
19^1. pounds.
19^2. doth _for_ did.
20^1. up _wanting_.
22^3. unto sin.
23^3. with _wanting_.
24^1. on _for_ upon.
148
THE NOBLE FISHERMAN, OR, ROBIN HOOD’S PREFERMENT
#a.# Wood, 402, p. 18. #b.# Wood, 401, leaf 25 b. #c.# Garland of
1663, No 12. #d.# Garland of 1670, No 11. #e.# Rawlinson, 566. #f.#
Pepys, II, 108, No 95. #g.# Pepys, II, 123, No 108.
Also Roxburghe, II, 370, III, 524; The Noble Fisherman’s Garland, 1686;
Bagford, 643. m. 10, 22.
‘The Noble Ffisherman, or, Robin Hoods great Prize’ is receipted for to
Francis Coules in the Stationers’ Registers, June 13, 1631: Arber, IV,
254.
Ritson, Robin Hood, II, 110, 1795, “from three old black-letter copies,
one in the collection of Anthony a Wood, another in the British Museum,
and the third in a private collection.” Evans, Old Ballads, 1777, 1784,
I, 171, from an Aldermary garland.
Robin Hood is here made to try his fortunes on the sea, like Eustace the
Monk and Wallace. He goes to Scarborough and gives himself out as a
fisherman, and is engaged as such by a widow with whom he lodges, who is
the owner of a ship. Out of his wantonness, rather than his ignorance,
we must suppose, Simon, as he calls himself, when others cast baited
hooks into the water, casts in bare lines; for which he is laughed to
scorn. A French cruiser bears down on the fishermen, and the master
gives up all for lost. Simon asks for his bow; not a Frenchman will he
spare. The master, not strangely, takes such talk for brag. Simon
requests to be tied to a mast, ‘that at his mark he may stand fair,’ and
to have his bow in his hand, when never a Frenchman will he spare. He
shoots one of the enemy through the heart, and then asks to be loosed
and to have his bow in his hand, when, again, never a Frenchman will he
spare. The Englishmen board, and find a booty of twelve thousand pound.
Simon announces that he shall give half the ship to the dame who
employed him, and the other half to his comrades. The master objects;
Simon has won the vessel with his own hand (a point which might have
been made more distinctly to appear in the narrative), and he shall have
her. But the outlaw afloat has still his munificent old ways; so it
shall be as to the ship, and the twelve thousand pound shall build an
asylum ‘for the opprest’! All this may strike us as infantile, but the
ballad was evidently in great favor two hundred years ago.
Translated (not entirely) by A. Grün, p. 295.
1
In summer time, when leaves grow green,
When they doe grow both green and long,
Of a bould outlaw, calld Robin Hood,
It is of him I sing this song.
2
When the lilly leafe and the elephant
Doth bud and spring with a merry good cheere,
This outlaw was weary of the wood-side,
And chasing of the fallow deere.
3
‘The fishermen brave more mony have
Then any merchant, two or three;
Therefore I will to Scarborough goe,
That I a fisherman brave may be.’
4
This outlaw calld his merry men all,
As they sate under the green-wood tree:
‘If any of you have gold to spend,
I pray you heartily spend it with me.
5
‘Now,’ quoth Robin, ‘I’le to Scarborough goe,
It seemes to be a very faire day;’
Who tooke up his inne at a widdow-womans house,
Hard by upon the water gray.
6
Who asked of him, Where wert thou borne?
Or tell to me, where dost thou fare?
‘I am a poore fisherman,’ saith he then,
‘This day intrapped all in care.’
7
‘What is thy name, thou fine fellow?
I pray thee heartily tell to me;’
‘In mine own country where I was borne,
Men called me Simon over the Lee.’
8
‘Simon, Simon,’ said the good wife,
‘I wish thou maist well brook thy name;’
The outlaw was ware of her courtesie,
And rejoycd he had got such a dame.
9
‘Simon, wilt thou be my man?
And good round wages I’le give thee;
I have as good a ship of mine owne
As any sayle upon the sea.
10
‘Anchors and planks thou shalt want none,
Masts and ropes that are so long;’
‘And if that you thus furnish me,’
Said Simon, ‘nothing shall goe wrong.’
11
They pluckt up anchor, and away did sayle,
More of a day then two or three;
When others cast in their baited hooks,
The bare lines into the sea cast he.
12
‘It will be long,’ said the master then,
‘Ere this great lubber do thrive on the sea;
I’le assure you he shall have no part of our fish,
For in truth he is of no part worthy.’
13
‘O woe is me,’ said Simon then,
‘This day that ever I came here!
I wish I were in Plomton Parke,
In chasing of the fallow deere.
14
‘For every clowne laughs me to scorne,
And they by me set nought at all;
If I had them in Plomton Park,
I would set as little by them all.’
15
They pluckt up anchor, and away did sayle,
More of a day then two or three;
But Simon spied a ship of warre,
That sayld towards them most valourously.
16
‘O woe is me,’ said the master then,
‘This day that ever I was borne!
For all our fish we have got to-day
Is every bit lost and forlorne.
17
‘For your French robbers on the sea,
They will not spare of us one man,
But carry us to the coast of France,
And ligge us in the prison strong.’
18
But Simon said, Doe not feare them,
Neither, master, take you no care;
Give me my bent bow in my hand,
And never a Frenchman will I spare.
19
‘Hold thy peace, thou long lubber,
For thou art nought but braggs and boast;
If I should cast the over-board,
There were nothing but a lubber lost.’
20
Simon grew angry at these words,
And so angry then was he
That he tooke his bent bow in his hand,
And to the ship-hatch goe doth he.
21
‘Master, tye me to the mast,’ saith he,
‘That at my mark I may stand fair,
And give me my bended bow in my hand,
And never a Frenchman will I spare.’
22
He drew his arrow to the very head,
And drew it with all might and maine,
And straightway, in the twinkling of an eye,
Doth the Frenchmans heart the arow gain.
23
The Frenchman fell downe on the ship-hatch,
And under the hatches down below;
Another Frenchman that him espy’d
The dead corps into the sea doth throw.
24
‘O master, loose me from the mast,’ he said,
‘And for them all take you no care,
And give me my bent bow in my hand,
And never a Frenchman will I spare.’
25
Then streight [they] did board the Frenchmans ship,
They lying all dead in their sight;
They found within the ship of warre
Twelve thousand pound of money bright.
26
‘The one halfe of the ship,’ said Simon then,
‘I’le give to my dame and children small;
The other halfe of the ship I’le bestow
On you that are my fellowes all.’
27
But now bespake the master then,
For so, Simon, it shall not be;
For you have won her with your own hand,
And the owner of it you shall bee.
28
‘It shall be so, as I have said;
And, with this gold, for the opprest
An habitation I will build,
Where they shall live in peace and rest.’
* * * * *
#a.#
The Noble Fisher-man, or, Robin Hoods Preferment: shewing how he
won a great prize on the sea, and how he gave the one halfe to
his dame and the other to the building of almes-houses.
The tune is, In summer time.
London, Printed for F. Coles, in the Old Baily. (1631?)
3^1. fisher-man, _which perhaps should stand_.
5^1. with _for_ quoth.
20^4. hatchs.
21^2. fare.
22^4. Frenchman.
23^1. fell owne.
25^2. lyin.
28^2. for thee.
#b.#
_Title as in_ #a#, _except_: won a prize, gave one half.
Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and W. Gilbertson. (1648–63?)
2^1. Clephant.
2^2. good _wanting_.
3^1. fisherman.
3^3. will I.
5^1. with _for_ quoth.
12^4. of _wanting_.
14^2. set nothing.
16^3. fish that we have got: to-day _wanting_.
17^1. For yon.
19^4. There’s but a simple.
20^4. ship-hatch.
21^1. mast he said.
21^2. fare.
21^3. bent.
22^4. Frenchmans.
23^1. downe.
25^1. streight they boarded the French ship.
25^2. lying.
25^4. in mony.
26^3. of my ship I’le give.
26^4. To you.
27^3. hands.
27^4. must be.
28^2. for thee.
#c#, #d#.
_Title as in_ #a#, _except_: won a prize, gave one.
The tune is, Summer time.
2^2. good _wanting_.
3^1. fisher men.
3^2. Than.
5^1. Now quoth.
6^2. #c#, thou dost.
6^3. said.
6^4. #d#, cares.
7^4. call.
9^4. sails.
11^2. #d#, than.
12^3. you _wanting_.
12^4. of _wanting_.
14^2. set nothing.
15^2. than.
15^4. most _wanting_.
16^3. fish that we have got: to-day _wanting_.
17^1. yon: robber.
18^2. you any.
19^4. There’s but a simple.
20^4. shiphatch.
21^1. mast he said.
21^2. fair.
21^3. bent.
21^4. #d#, a _wanting_.
22^4. Frenchmans.
23^1. down.
24^1. #c#, mast side.
25^1. they boarded the French ship.
25^2. lying.
25^4. in _for_ of.
26^3. of my ship I’le give.
26^4. To you.
27^1. #c#, But _wanting_.
27^3. hands.
27^4. you must: #d#, of you it.
28^2. for the.
#e.#
_Title as in #b#. Variations found also in #b# are not given._
Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke.
(1650–80?)
5^1. Now quoth.
5^4. waters.
6^1. of _wanting_.
9^4. sails.
15^3. espy’d.
17^4. And lay.
18^2. any _for_ no.
23^3. that him did espy.
#f.#
_Title as in_ #b.#
Printed for Alex. Milbourn, Will. Ownley, Tho. Thackeray at the
Angel in Duck-lane. (_Date indeterminable: after 1670._)
1^2. doe _wanting_.
1^4. my song.
2^2. good _wanting_.
3^1. fishermen.
3^2. merchants.
3^4. fisherman might be.
4^3. If you have any.
5^1. Now quoth Robin Hood.
5^4. waters.
6^1. of _wanting_.
6^3. said.
7^2. tell it.
7^4. call.
9^2. I will.
9^3. of my.
9^4. sails.
10^1. shalt not want.
10^3. that _wanting_.
12^3. you _wanting_.
12^4. of _wanting_.
14^2. set nothing.
15^3. espyed.
15^4. most _wanting_.
16^3. fish that we have got.
17^1. robber.
17^4. And lay.
18^2. you any.
19^4. There’s but a simple lubber lost.
20^4. And in.
21^1. saith he _wanting_.
21^2. fair.
21^3. bent.
22^4. Frenchmans.
23^1. ship-catch: _so_ #g#.
23^2. there below.
25^1. Then they boarded the French: _so_ #g#.
25^4. in _for_ of.