. Robin Hood; a collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw, to which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life. XXIII. ROBIN HOOD RESCUING THE WIDOWS THREE SONS FROM THE SHERIFF WHEN GOING TO BE EXECUTED. This ballad, from the York edition of Robin Hoods garland,is probably one of the oldest extant of which he is the the more common editions is a modernised copy, in which the silly old woman is converted in a gay lady ; but even thisis more ancient than many of the pieces here inserted, and isintitled, by its m
. Robin Hood; a collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw, to which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life. XXIII. ROBIN HOOD RESCUING THE WIDOWS THREE SONS FROM THE SHERIFF WHEN GOING TO BE EXECUTED. This ballad, from the York edition of Robin Hoods garland,is probably one of the oldest extant of which he is the the more common editions is a modernised copy, in which the silly old woman is converted in a gay lady ; but even thisis more ancient than many of the pieces here inserted, and isintitled, by its merit, to a place in the appendix. The circumstance of Robins changing clothes with the palmeris, possibly, taken from an old romance intitled The noblehystory of the moost excellent and myghty prynce and hygh re-nowmed knyght kynge Ponthus of Galyce and of lytell Brytayne,Enprynted at Eondon in Flete strete at the sygne of the sonne byWynkyn de Worde, In the yere of our lorde god, ,4to, b. 1. sig. L 6 : And as he [Ponthus] rode he met with apoore palmer beggynge his brede the whiche had his gowne allto clouted and an olde pylled hatte, so he alyght and sayd to thepalm
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