Chapter I: Front Matter

ROBIN HOOD, a Collection of all the Ancient
Poems, Songs and Ballads, now extant, Relative
to that Celebrated English Outlaw; by Joseph
Ritson; With eighty Wood Engravings by Thomas
Bewick and nine Etchings from original
paintings by A.H. Tourrier and E. Buckman.

ROBIN HOOD.

_PUBLISHER’S NOTE._

_Of this fine Large Paper Edition one hundred copies are printed, each being numbered._

_The portrait and nine etchings are given in duplicate, one being printed on Whatman paper and the other on Japanese._

_No._ 61

_RITSON_

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

BY JOSEPH RITSON

With Eighty Wood Engravings

BY THOMAS BEWICK

PRINTED ON CHINA PAPER

Also Nine Etchings from Original Paintings

BY A. H. TOURRIER AND E. BUCKMAN

LONDON JOHN C. NIMMO 14, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND, W.C. 1885

Ballantyne & Hanson Edinburgh London]

_PUBLISHER’S NOTICE._

_This edition of ROBIN HOOD is printed from that published in 1832, which was carefully edited and printed from Mr. RITSON’S own annotated edition of 1795._

_The original wood engravings, by the celebrated THOMAS BEWICK, have been again used; and from being printed on China paper, will be found superior in clearness and beauty to the first impression._

_The nine etchings now given have been newly etched from original pictures painted by A. H. TOURRIER and E. BUCKMAN._

CONTENTS.

THE LIFE OF ROBIN HOOD . . . i

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS . . . xiv

Part the First.

I. A LYTELL GESTE OF ROBYN HODE . . . 1

II. ROBIN HOOD [AND THE POTTER] . . . 81

III. ROBIN HOOD AND THE BEGGAR . . . 97

IV. ROBIN HOOD AND GUY OF GISBORNE . . . 114

V. A TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD . . . 126

Part the Second.

I. ROBIN HOOD’S BIRTH, BREEDING, VALOUR, AND
MARRIAGE . . . 149

II. ROBIN HOOD’S PROGRESS TO
NOTTINGHAM . . . 161

III. THE JOLLY PINDER OF WAKEFIELD, WITH ROBIN
HOOD, SCARLET, AND JOHN . . . 166

IV. ROBIN HOOD AND THE BISHOP . . . 170

V. ROBIN HOOD AND THE BUTCHER . . . 175

VI. ROBIN HOOD AND THE TANNER . . . 181

VII. ROBIN HOOD AND THE TINKER . . . 189

VIII. ROBIN HOOD AND ALLIN A DALE . . . 197

IX. ROBIN HOOD AND THE SHEPHERD . . . 203

X. ROBIN HOOD AND THE CURTALL FRYER . . . 209

XI. ROBIN HOOD AND THE STRANGER . . . 217

XII. ROBIN HOOD AND QUEEN KATHERINE . . . 235

XIII. ROBIN HOOD’S CHASE . . . 244

XIV. ROBIN HOOD’S GOLDEN PRIZE . . . 249

XV. ROBIN HOOD RESCUING WILL STUTLY . . . 254

XVI. THE NOBLE FISHERMAN; OR, ROBIN HOOD’S
PREFERMENT . . . 262

XVII. ROBIN HOOD’S DELIGHT . . . 268

XVIII. ROBIN HOOD AND THE BEGGAR . . . 274

XIX. LITTLE JOHN AND THE FOUR BEGGARS . . . 280

XX. ROBIN HOOD AND THE RANGER . . . 285

XXI. ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN . . . 290

XXII. ROBIN HOOD AND THE BISHOP OF
HEREFORD . . . 298

XXIII. ROBIN HOOD RESCUING THE WIDOW’S THREE
SONS FROM THE SHERIFF WHEN GOING TO BE
EXECUTED . . . 303

XXIV. ROBIN HOOD AND MAID MARIAN . . . 309

XXV. THE KING’S DISGUISE, AND FRIENDSHIP WITH
ROBIN HOOD . . . 314

XXVI. ROBIN HOOD AND THE GOLDEN ARROW . . . 323

XXVII. ROBIN HOOD AND THE VALIANT
KNIGHT . . . 330

XXVIII. ROBIN HOOD’S DEATH AND BURIAL . . . 335

APPENDIX . . . 341

GLOSSARY . . . 387

LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS.

PORTRAIT OF JOSEPH RITSON . . . _Frontispiece_

KIRKLEY HALL . . . _Page_ xiv

COURTESY OF LITTLE JOHN . . . 6

LITTLE JOHN AND THE KNIGHT . . . 14

ROBIN HOOD AND THE LADY . . . 58

THE BANQUET . . . 89

ROBIN HOOD AND THE ABBOT . . . 132

ROBIN HOOD AND THE PINDER . . . 168

THE PRAYER OF THE FRIARS . . . 252

ROBIN HOOD AND HIS BETRAYER . . . 336