[118], ballockes, C.
[154], maryet, C.
[155], the, C.
[158], not breake, in C.
[187], to do, C.; to or so omitted in W.
[189], wedded, C, wed, W.
[197], your, C.
FRAGMENT OF AN INTERLUDE (?) OF ROBIN HOOD.
The lines which follow would seem to be part of an Interlude, in which, as in the play just given, the incidents of several ballads are rudely combined. The present fragment is manifestly founded on Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne. We owe this curious relic to a correspondent of Notes and Queries (vol. xii. p. 321), who found it in an interleaved copy of Robin Hood's Garland, formerly belonging to Dr. Stukely, the inventor of the preposterous pedigree of Robin Hood. The Doctor has prefixed these remarks:—"It is not to be doubted but that many of subsequent songs are compiled from old ballads wrote in the time, or soon after Robin Hood, with alterations from time to time into the more modern language. Mr. Le Neve (Norroy) has a large half-sheet of paper which was taken from the inside of some old book, which preserves in an old hand a fragment of this sort. On the back of it is wrote, among other accounts, this, 'Itm, R. S. of Richard Whitway, penter for his house, sent in full payment, jx. s., the vij. day of November, Edw'd iij. xv.'; and in a later hand as follows."