Produced by Simon Gardner, Dianna Adair, Louise Davies and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Digital & Multimedia Center, Michigan State University Libraries.) Transcriber's Notes Archaic, dialect and inconsistent spellings have been retained as in the original. Other than minor corrections to format or punctuation, any changes to the text have been listed at the end of the book. In this Plain Text version of the e-book, symbols from the ASCII and Latin-1 character sets only are used. Italic typeface is indicated by _underscores_. Bold typeface is indicated by =equals symbols=. Small caps typeface is represented by UPPER CASE. Superscript characters are indicated by a preceding caret (^). [OE] and [oe] represent the oe-ligature (upper and lower case). A pointing hand symbol is represented as [right pointing hand]. Footnotes are numbered in sequence throughout the book and presented at the end of the section or ballad in which the footnote anchor appears. Notes with reference to ballad line numbers are presented at the end of each ballad and the presence of a note is indicated at the end of line number ## by "[L##]". * * * * * ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BALLADS EDITED BY FRANCIS JAMES CHILD. VOLUME V. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY M.DCCC.LX. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIFTH. BOOK V. Page INTRODUCTION. Robin Hood vii 1. Robin Hood and the Monk 1 2 a. Robin Hood and the Potter 17 2 b. Robin Hood and the Butcher 33 3. Robyn and Gandelyn 38 4. A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode 42 5. Adam Bel, Clym of the Cloughe, and Wyllyam of Cloudeslé 124 6. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne 159 7. The Birth of Robin Hood 170 8 a. Rose the Red, and White Lilly 173 8 b. The Wedding of Robin Hood and Little John 184 9 a. Robin Hood and the Beggar 187