The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
305^3. woundes so wyde and longe.
305^4. That I after eate no breade.
306^1. that _wanting_.
306^2. slayne.
306^4. Though I had it all by me.
307^1. forbyd that: Much then.
307^4. Depart.
308^4. another a whyle.
312^1. I do the thankes for thy comfort.
312^{2,3}. And for.
313^1. all the.
314^1. Shutte.
314^4. wall.
315^1. the hote.
315^3. Thou shalt these xij dayes abide.
316^2. Redye.
316^4. gan.
317^2. vnto the.
317^3. Howe the proude shirife began.
319^1. can.
319^3. kepest there.
319^4. lawes.
320^4. am true.
321^2. do ye no more vnto.
322^3. he went.
323^4. That noble were and.
324^1. He wolde: had.
324^3. He wold.
325^1. the kynge.
326^1. Go home, thou proude sheryfe.
326^2. the bydde.
329^4. Therfore.
330^1. Ther he.
330^3. that gentyl.
330^4. and by.
331^1. awayted that.
331^4. his hauke.
332^1. _misprinted_ To be.
332^3. him home to.
332^4. Ybounde.
333^2. on a tree.
333^4. robin hode had he.
334^1. Then the lady the.
334^2. a _wanting_.
335^1. to the.
335^3. There she found.
336^1. Robyn Hode.
336^3. ladyes loue.
337^1. Let thou.
337^2. to be.
337^3. bound.
338^2. so _wanting_.
338^3. ytake.
338^4. The proude shirife than sayd she.
339. _Only this_: He is not yet passed thre myles, You may them
ouertake.
340^2. a man: ben.
340^3. mery yemen.
340^4. on a tree.
341^2. on a tree.
341^{3,4}. And by him that al thinges maketh No lenger shall dwell
with me.
342^1. ybent.
343^2. The knight would.
343^3. And yf ye he may him take.
343^4. Yquyte than shall he bee.
344^4. gan the.
346^2. so fast.
346^4. That is.
347^1. full _wanting_.
347^2. at his.
349^2. may thou thryue.
349^3. to the.
349^4. thou wast.
351^1. start.
351^2. cut into.
354^4. and _wanting_.
355^1. them _for_ men.
356^2. vnderstode.
357^1. the compasse.
357^2. He wend.
358^2. a one.
358^3. fynde any.
359^4. eyes.
360^3. He should.
361^2. it with.
364^3. to no.
366^2. By halte.
366^4. And vsed.
368^2. That we be.
368^4. walked: by your.
369^2. on the.
369^4. I saye.
370^4. eyes.
371^1. hastely.
371^3. They were all in.
371^4. thyther blythe.
375^2. Standinge by.
376^1. toke _wanting_.
376^4. you.
377^4. Other shyft haue not we.
378^2. And good.
380^3. full _wanting_.
381^3. a.
381^4. I would geve it to the.
382^2. And deuyde it than did he.
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