26, 871. I regret having changed ‘an oute-horne,’ which is the reading in all the texts which have the stanza (b-f), to ‘a noute-home.’ Oute horne was originally given, and therefore this reading was not entered in the variations of c-f, as should have been done later, when the reading ‘a noute-home’ was adopted.
117. A Gest of Robyn Hode.
P. 43, note §. Right-hitting Brand is one of the attendants of Robin in A. Munday’s Metropolis Coronata (1615), Fairholt, Pageants, I, 40. J. M. Manly.
52 and note. See further on Le prêt miraculeusement remboursé, M. René Basset, in Revue des Traditions populaires, IX, 14-31.
54. Mr Macmath has sent me a transcript of another copy of the song in Deuteromelia which exhibits some variations. It was found April 5, 1895, in a bundle of papers that had belonged to John, Duke of Roxburghe. This copy is in a 17th century hand, and at the end is written: “This song was esteemed an old song before the rebellion broke out in 1641.”
76, st. 412. The first two verses should be corrected according to f, g, thus:
‘Mercy,’ then said Robyn to our kynge,
‘Vnder this.’
120. Robin Hood’s Death.
P. 103, note *, V, 240. Communion-bread called God (Lord). “For it was about Easter, at what times maidens gadded abroade, after they had taken their Maker, as they call it.” Wilson, Arte of Logike, fol. 84 b. J. M. Manly.