. 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. XXl. ROBIN HOOD, AND LITFLE JOHN: Being an account of their first meeting, their fierce encounter,and conquest. To which is added, their friendly agreement; andhow he came to be called Little John. Iune of Arthur a Bland. This ballad is named in a schedule of such tilings under anagreement between W. Thackeray and others in 1689, ( vol. 5.) but is here given as corrected from a copy in the Collection o
. 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. XXl. ROBIN HOOD, AND LITFLE JOHN: Being an account of their first meeting, their fierce encounter,and conquest. To which is added, their friendly agreement; andhow he came to be called Little John. Iune of Arthur a Bland. This ballad is named in a schedule of such tilings under anagreement between W. Thackeray and others in 1689, ( vol. 5.) but is here given as corrected from a copy in the Collection of old ballads, 1723. The notion that Little John obtained this appellation, ironi-cally, from his superior stature, though doubtless ill-founded, is ofconsiderable antiquity. See Notes and illustrations to the life,p. cxxxiii. When Robin Hood was about twenty years old,With a hey down, down, and a down; He happend to meet Little John,A jolly brisk blade, right fit for the trade, For he was a lusty young man. ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN. 143 Tho he was calld Little, his limbs they were large,And his stature was seven foot high ; Whereever he came, they qiiakd at his name,For soon
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