[176] The comparison of broadsides with traditional versions is instructive. See I, A, a, b, c; 10, A, a; 45, B; 53, L, M; 73, D; 104, B, 112, E (and II, 491); 110, A; 145, C; 151; 152; 153; 162, B; 167, B; 268. Much of the later Robin Hood poetry looks like “char-work done for the petty press” (III, 42). Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly (141) “is a ballad made for print, with little of the traditional in the matter and nothing in the style” (III, 185).
[177] II, 480.
[178] I, 335.
[179] “Jamieson was not always precise in the account he gave of the changes he made in his texts” (IV, 255). Cf. also I, 138.
[180] Stanzas 20, 21, 27, etc. I, 119. Cf. II, 83.
[181] I, 297.
[182] II, 63 f.
[183] I, 335.
[184] II, 302.
[185] I, 112.