“Viventes venæ, spine, catinusque catenæ,
Sunt Robin Hoodi nota trophæa sui.”
“A well, thorne, dish, hung in an iron chaine,
For monuments of Robin Hood remaine.”
[112] Voyage from England to India, 1773, p. 8. In a subsequent page this great man is employed in a commerce of a more delicate, indeed, but, according to European notions, less honourable nature, which he manages with consummate address.
[113] They likewise seem alluded to in the Vision, fo. 1, b:
“And ryse wyth ribaudy as Rebertes knaves.”
[114] “On a loose paper, in Mr. Ashmole’s handwriting, in the museum at Oxford, is the following little anecdote:—
“The famous Little John (Robin Hood’s companion) lyes buried in Fethersedge churchyard, in the peak of Derbyshire, one stone at his head, another at his feet, and part of his bow hangs up in the chancell. Anno 1652.” H. E[llis]. European Magazine, October 1794, p. 295.