27^1. thorow at: _but cf._ 30^2. 27^4. xij. 30^1. Robyns men to the churche ran: _Madden. There are no men with Robin. “This line is almost illegible. It certainly begins with_ Robyn, _and the second word is not_ men. _I read it_, Robyn into the churche ran.” _Skeat._ 30^2. _A gap here between two pages, and there are commonly six stanzas to a page. At least six are required for the capture of Robin Hood and the conveying of the tidings to his men._ 43^2. Of xx. 44^1. me me _in my copy, probably by inadvertence_. 44^2. Of a C li. 53^1. hym. 56^1. Þ^e kyng. 58^2. xx li. 77^4. #b# _has_ Quit me, _which is perhaps better_. 78^2. _perhaps_ saie; _nearly illegible_. 90^2. I wysse. #b.# 69^3. þe p_ri_s_o_n. 70^4. throw to. 71^1. be jayler. 71^2. toke. 72^2. hed ther with. 72^3. wallis wer_e_. 72^4. down ther they. 77^2. [t]hen _for_ can (?). 77^4. Quit me. 78^2. the saye. 78^3. þe grene. 79^{1,3}. Hode _wanting_. 120 ROBIN HOOD’S DEATH #A.# ‘Robin Hoode his Death,’ Percy MS., p. 21; Hales and Furnivall, I, 53. #B.# ‘Robin Hood’s Death and Burial.’ #a.# The English Archer, Paisley, John Neilson, 1786: Bodleian Library, Douce, F. F. 71 (6), p. 81. #b.# The English Archer, York, printed by N. Nickson, in Feasegate, n. d.: Bodleian Library, Douce, F. F. 71 (4), p. 70. #B# is given in Ritson’s Robin Hood, 1795, II, 183, “from a collation of two different copies” of a York garland, “containing numerous variations, a few of which are retained in the margin.” #A.# Robin Hood is ailing, and is convinced that the only course for him is to go to Kirklees priory for blooding. Will Scarlet cannot counsel this, unless his master take fifty bowmen with him; for a yeoman lives there with whom there is sure to be a quarrel. Robin bids Scarlet stay at home, if he is afraid. Scarlet, seeing that his master is wroth, will say no more.[91] Robin Hood will have no one go with him but Little John, who shall carry his bow. John proposes that they shall shoot for a penny along the way, and Robin assents. The opening of the ballad resembles that of Robin Hood and the Monk. There Robin’s soul is ill at ease, as here his body, and he resolves to go to Nottingham for mass; Much, the Miller’s son, advises a guard of twelve yeomen; Robin will take none with him except John, to bear his bow;[92] and John suggests that they shall shoot for a penny as they go.