The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)

by Unknown

24³. Robin he.

24⁴. This coat.

25¹. to for into.

25². for wanting.

26¹. me wanting: maid, says.

27². bride she lookd like a.

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ROBIN HOOD’S PROGRESS TO NOTTINGHAM

a. Wood, 402, leaf 14 b. b. Wood, 401, leaf 37 b. c. Garland of 1663, No 2. d. Garland of 1670, No 1. e. Pepys, II, 104, No 92.

This piece occurs also in the Roxburghe Ballads, III, 270, 845, the Douce, III, 120, was among Heber’s ballads (a copy by W. Onley), and is probably in all collections of broadsides.

a or b was printed by Ritson, Robin Hood, 1795, II, 12. A copy in Evans’s Old Ballads, 1777, 1784, I, 96, is later, and very like Douce, III, 120.