ARTICLES
The London and Westminster Review. March 1840. Vol. xxxiii.
The Academy (correspondence). 1883. Vol. xxiv.
The Quarterly Review. July 1898.
A GEST OF ROBYN HODE
‘Rebus huius Roberti gestis tota Britannia in cantibus utitur.’
Major.
The Text.—There are seven texts of the Gest, to be distinguished as follows:—
(i.) begins ‘Here begynneth a gest of Robyn Hode’; an undated printed fragment preserved with other early pieces in a volume in the Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh. It was reprinted in 1827 by David Laing, who then supposed it to be from the press of Chepman and Myllar, Edinburgh printers of the early sixteenth century; but he afterwards had reason to doubt this opinion. It is now attributed to Jan van Doesborch, a printer from Antwerp. The extent of this fragment is indicated below. Internal evidence (collected by Child, iii. 40) shows it to be an older text than