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.
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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.
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Outlaws -- Poetry; Robin Hood (Legendary character) -- Poetry; Songs, English -- England -- Texts
Page 164n. The original inverted asterism has been replaced with an
asterism ⁂ in this text edition.
Page 170. “Robin Hdoo served” to “Robin Hood served”.
Page 188 music midi file. In bar 9, the E-sharp has been corrected
to E-natural.
Page 263n. The footnote “Elephant.” had no anchor in the text, and
is therefore relocated here. A volunteer suggested that it might
attach to ‘eglantine’ in the first line on the page.
Page 269n. The footnote “Robin Hood.” had no anchor in the text; a
new one was inserted after “Robin” in the third stanza.
Page 302 midi file. In bar 6, the first note has been corrected to
a quarter-note. In bar 7, the eighth notes have been corrected to
sixteenth notes.
Page 312n. The footnote had no anchor; a new one is inserted after
“And ‘wandred’”.
Page 348n. Changed “later period in Germany (see” to “later period
in Germany, see”
Pages 354, 355 midi file. The three music snippets on these pages
are meant to be sung as a single three-part chorus, and have been
so rendered in the midi file. Note that transcribing early music
notation into modern notation is not an exact science; in 1609,
when this piece was published, music notation was still considered
more of a guide than a mandate. Therefore, adjustments were made so
that the sound file makes musical sense.
Page 357 midi file. As with the previous piece, which was also
published in 1609, adjustments were made so that the sound file
makes musical sense.
Page 387. Several entries in the Glossary ending with comma were
altered to end with full stop.
Page 393. “_Lewtè_, loyal y,” changed to “_Lewtè_, loyalty,”.
Page 396. There are in several places in this book instances of
words printed in mixtures of uncial, insular, and humanist type.
These have been rendered in common unicode characters in this text
edition; images are provided for the html, epub, and mobi editions.
A particularly odd instance occurs on page 396, where the Saxon
word meaning _Quequer_ is rendered herein “Gocur”.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Robin Hood, by Joseph Ritson
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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