Produced by MWS, RichardW, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Music transcribed by Linda Cantoni. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) 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 [Illustration: J. Ritson.] [Illustration: J. Ritson.] _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 [Illustration: The Ballantyne Press Ballantyne & Hanson Edinburgh London] [Illustration] _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._ [Illustration] 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