English and Scottish Ballads, Volume V

Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts

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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##]".

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                           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

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