The
English and Scottish
Popular Ballads


Edited by
Francis James Child


Part V


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No. 233


Copyright, 1888, by F. J. Child.


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Rev. Professor Skeat has done me the great service of collating Wynken de Worde's text of The Gest of Robin Hood, the manuscript of Robin Hood and the Monk and of Robin Hood and the Potter, and all the Robin Hood broadsides in the Pepys collection. Mr Macmath has collated the fragments of the earlier copy of The Gest which are preserved in the Advocates' Library, and, as always, has been most ready to respond to every call for aid. I would also gratefully acknowledge assistance received from Mr W. Aldis Wright, of Trinity College, Cambridge; the Rev. Edmund Venables, Precentor of Lincoln; Dr Furnivall; and, in America, from Mr W. W. Newell, Miss Perine and Mrs Dulany.

F. J. C.

February, 1888.

Contents
Page
114. Johnie Cock 1
115. Robyn and Gandeleyn 12
116. Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly 14
117. A Gest of Robyn Hode 39
118. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne 89
119. Robin Hood and the Monk 94
120. Robin Hood's Death 102
121. Robin Hood and the Potter 108
122. Robin Hood and the Butcher 115
123. Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar 120
124. The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield 129
125. Robin Hood and Little John 133
126. Robin Hood and the Tanner 137
127. Robin Hood and the Tinker 140
128. Robin Hood newly Revived 144
129. Robin Hood and the Prince of Aragon 147
130. Robin Hood and the Scotchman 150
131. Robin Hood and the Ranger 152
132. The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood 154
133. Robin Hood and the Beggar, I 155
134. Robin Hood and the Beggar, II 158
135. Robin Hood and the Shepherd 165
136. Robin Hood's Delight 168
137. Robin Hood and the Pedlars 170
138. Robin Hood and Allen a Dale 172
139. Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham 175
140. Robin Hood rescuing Three Squires 177
141. Robin Hood rescuing Will Stutly 185
142. Little John a Begging 188
143. Robin Hood and the Bishop 191
144. Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford 193
145. Robin Hood and Queen Katherine 196
146. Robin Hood's Chase 205
147. Robin Hood's Golden Prize 208
148. The Noble Fisherman, or, Robin Hood's Preferment 211
149. Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage 214
150. Robin Hood and Maid Marian 218
151. The King's Disguise, and Friendship with Robin Hood 220
152. Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow 223
153. Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight 225
154. A True Tale of Robin Hood 227
155. Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter 233