56 But Iohn tooke Guyes bow in his hand— His arrowes were rawstye by the roote—; The sherriffe saw Litle Iohn draw a bow And ffettle him to shoote. 57 Towards his house in Nottingam He ffled full fast away, And soe did all his companye, Not one behind did stay. 58 But he cold neither soe fast goe, Nor away soe fast runn, But Litle Iohn, w_i_th an arrow broade, Did cleaue his heart in twinn. * * * * * 1^1. When shales beeene. 1^4. birds singe. 2^1. woodweete. 2^3. by 2. 11^1. ball. 12^3. 2 of. 13^3. with 7. 15^1. veiwe. _The word is partly pared away._ 15^4. footee. 18^1. a william. 19^2. 6 can ... 3. 21^4. in they green. 22^1. these 2. 23^4. archer: _an_ e _has been added at the end_. _Furnivall._ 25^4. 40[li :]. 27^4. _a stroke before the_ v _of steven_. _Furnivall._ 28^3. 3 score. 31^1. 2[d :]. 32^3. for on. 37^2. 2 howers. 44^1. did on. 55^1. kniffee. 119 ROBIN HOOD AND THE MONK #a.# MS. of about 1450: Cambridge University Library, Ff. 5. 48, fol. 128 b. #b.# One leaf of a MS. of the same age, containing stanzas 69^3–72, 77^2–80^2: Bagford Ballads, vol. i, art. 6, British Museum. #a# is printed from the manuscript in Jamieson’s Popular Ballads, II, 54, 1806; Hartshorne’s Ancient Metrical Tales, p. 179, 1829; Ritson’s Robin Hood, ed. 1832, II, 221, collated by Sir Frederic Madden. Here printed from a fresh transcript, carefully revised by Rev. Professor Skeat.