Chapter I: Front Matter

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_Uniform with this Volume_

POPULAR BALLADS OF THE OLDEN TIME

FIRST SERIES.

Ballads of Romance and Chivalry. 1903.

SECOND SERIES.

Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth. 1904.

THIRD SERIES.

Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance. 1906.

LONDON: SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD

POPULAR BALLADS
OF THE OLDEN TIME
SELECTED AND EDITED
BY FRANK SIDGWICK

Fourth Series. Ballads of
Robin Hood and other
Outlaws

'Come sit we downe under this Hawthorne tree,
The morrowes light shall lend us daie enough,
And tell a tale of Gawen or Sir Guy,
Of Robin Hood, or of good Clem of the Clough.'

SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD
3 Adam Street, Adelphi
London. MCMXII

--C'est une vieille chanson.
--Qui l'a faite?
--On ne sait pas.
--Quand?
--On ne sait pas.
--Quand tu étais petit?
--Avant que je fusse au monde, avant qu'y fût mon père,
et le père de mon père, et le père du père de mon père.
Cela a toujours été.

--ROLLAND, _L'Aube_.

CONTENTS
Page

Preface vii
Introduction to the Robin Hood Ballads xi

A GEST OF ROBYN HODE 1
The First Fytte 5
The Second Fytte 20
The Third Fytte 32
The Fourth Fytte 43
The Fifth Fytte 57
The Sixth Fytte 64
The Seventh Fytte 72
The Eighth Fytte 84

ROBIN AND GANDELEYN 92
ROBIN HOOD AND THE MONK 96
ROBIN HOOD AND THE POTTER 113
ROBIN HOOD AND GUY OF GISBORNE 128
ROBIN HOOD'S DEATH 140
ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH AND
WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLY 147
JOHNNY O' COCKLEY'S WELL 177
THE OUTLAW MURRAY 183
SIR ANDREW BARTON 196
HENRY MARTYN 213
JOHN DORY 216
CAPTAIN WARD AND THE RAINBOW 219
THE SWEET TRINITY 224