[10] Beautiful; German, schön.

[11] Coppices or openings in a wood.

[12] In some glossaries the woodpecker, but here of course a song-bird,--perhaps, as Chappell suggests, the woodlark.

[13] A, on; lyne, lime or linden.

[14] Sturdy, brave.

[15] Robin now tells of a dream in which "they" (=the two "wight yeomen," who are Guy and, as Professor Child suggests, the Sheriff of Nottingham) maltreat him; and he thus foresees trouble "from two quarters."

[16] Revenged.

[17] Dreams.

[18] Tautological phrase,--"prepare and make ready."

[19] Murder, destruction.