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.

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And i shall think my labour well

Bestow’d to purpose good,

When’t shall be said that i did tell

True tales of Robin Hood.

FOOTNOTES TO “PART THE FIRST”, pp. 1–148

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[119] The irregularity or defect of the versification, in this and similar passages, is probably owing to the loss of a line.

[120] This seems to have been, and, in many parts, is still, the name generally used by the vulgar for Erming Street. The course of the real Watling Street was from Dover to Chester.

The Sayles appears to be some place in the neighbourhood of Barnsdale, but no mention of it has elsewhere occurred: though, it is believed, there is a field so called not far from Doncaster.