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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[64] Honest Barnaby, i.e. Richard Brathwayte, who wrote or travelled about 1640, was well acquainted with our hero’s story.

“Veni Nottingham tyrones

Sherwoodenses sunt latrones.

Instar Robin Hood, & servi

Scarlet & Joannis Parvi;

Passim, sparsim, peculantur,

Cellis, sylvis deprædantur.”

“Thence to Nottingham, where rovers,

Highway riders, Sherwood drovers,

Like old Robin Hood and Scarlet,