[2.] See Introduction, p. xxii.
ROBIN HOOD AND GUY OF GISBORNE
1.
1.1 ‘shaws,’ woods: ‘sheen,’ beautiful: ‘shradds,’ copses.
When shaws been sheen, and shradds full fair,
And leaves both large and long,
It is merry, walking in the fair forest,
To hear the small bird’s song.
2.
2.1 ‘woodweel,’ a small warbler. Percy, Ritson, Hazlitt, Halliwell, Child, Murray, Hales, and Furnivall, have variously identified it with the woodpecker, woodlark, redbreast, greenfinch, nuthatch, and ‘golden ouzle.’