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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Paid, beat, beaten.

Palmer. A palmer was, properly, a pilgrim who had visited the Holy Land, from the palm-branch or cross which he bore as a sign of such visitation: but it is probable that the distinction between palmers and other pilgrims was never much attended to in this country. The palmer in the text seems to be no more than a common beggar; as is, likewise, the one in the romance.

Partakers, assistants, persons to take thy part.

Passe, extent, bounds, limits, district; as the Pas de Calais. Copland’s edition reads compas.

Pauage, Pavag, Pavage, Pawage, a toll or duty payable for the liberty of passing over the soil or territory of another: paagium, L.

Pay, content, satisfaction, money.

Peces, p. [32].

Pecocke, With pecocke well ydight, handsomely dressed with peacock feathers. Thus Chaucer, describing his “squire’s yeman:”

“A shefe of peacocke arwes bright and kene,

Under his belt he bare ful thriftely.”