. 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. lew loud and shrill,Till an hundred and ten of Robin Hoods men Came marching down the green hill. Whose men are these ? says master sheriff, Whose men are they ? tell unto me. 70 O they are mine, but none of are come for the squires all three. O take them, o take them, says great master sheriff, O take them along with thee ;For theres never a man in fair Nottingham Can do the like of thee. V. 59. you s
. 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. lew loud and shrill,Till an hundred and ten of Robin Hoods men Came marching down the green hill. Whose men are these ? says master sheriff, Whose men are they ? tell unto me. 70 O they are mine, but none of are come for the squires all three. O take them, o take them, says great master sheriff, O take them along with thee ;For theres never a man in fair Nottingham Can do the like of thee. V. 59. you shall. V. 65. When. V. 70. roiiie tdl. 220 APPENDIX. VII. ROBIN HOODS DELIGHT. Dr. Pepusch, among other very curious articles of ancientEnglish music, was possessed of a MS. folio, (supposed to bestill extant,) which, at p. 15, contained a tune intitled RobinHood. See Wards Lives of the professors of Gresham col-lege, 1740, (an interleaved copy, corrected and augmented bythe author, in the British-museum). Robene Hude is likewisethe name of a dance in Wedderburns Complainte of Scotland,printed in 1549. The following tune is preserved by Oswald,in his Caledonian pocket ^^. , > p >> •^^= -lO^. -f^- •. pr^ J _, -■ • ^^:±- ^^ -1 ^ / ^^=^ ... ^ ^L ^ ^ iJ> ^ ^ ■w = APPENDIX. 221 VIII. ROBIN HOOD AND THE MONK. This singularly curious and excellent poem, which is probablythe earliest extant on the subject, was first printed in the An-cient metrical Tales, edited by the Rev. C. H. Hartshorne(8vo. 1829), from a MS. in the library of University College,Cambridge (F. F. 5. 48.), with which it has been since obliginglycollated by Frederic Madden, Esq. A few lines are unfortu-nately rendered illegible by damp. In somer when the shawes be sheyne, And leves be large and longe,Hit is fuUe mery in feyre foreste To here the foulys song. To se the dere draw to the dale, And leve the hilles hee,And shadow hem in the leves grene Vndur the grene wode tre. Hit befel o
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