18^4. pound or. 20^1. thou _wanting_: hornd: sheriff then said. 21^1. A hundred acres. 22^2. And with. 22^3. And _wanting_. 26^2. blew out. 27^1. will master said. 27^2. I pray you come. 27^3. hither _wanting_. 28^1. then _wanting_. 28^3. were it but. 29^4. five _for_ three, _wrongly, see_ 22^2. 30^1. he _wanting_: through. 123 ROBIN HOOD AND THE CURTAL FRIAR #A.# ‘Robine Hood and Ffryer Tucke,’ Percy MS., p. 10; Hales and Furnivall, I, 26. #B.# ‘The Famous Battel between Robin Hood and the Curtal Fryer.’ #a.# Garland of 1663, No 11. #b.#[99] Pepys, I, 78, No 37. #c.# Garland of 1670. #d.# Wood, 401, leaf 15 b. #e.# Pepys, II, 99, No 86. #f.# Douce, II, 184. #B# also in the Roxburghe collection, III, 16. #B d# was printed in Ritson’s Robin Hood, 1795, II, 58, corrected by #b# and compared with #e#; and in Evans’s Old Ballads, 1777–1784, I, 136, probably from the Aldermary garland. The opening verses of #A# are of the same description as those with which Nos 117, 118, 119, and others begin. 1 has been corrupted, and 2 also, one would think, as there is no apparent reason for maids weeping and young men wringing hands in the merry month of May. In the first stanza, But how many merry monthes be in the yeere? There are 13 in May; The midsummer moone is the merryest of all, Next to the merry month of May. _month_ in the first and the fourth line might be changed to _moon_, to justify thirteen in the second, and to accord with _moon_ in the third. For in May, in the second line, we may read, I say, or many say. The first stanza of No 140, #B#, runs: There are twelve months in all the year, As I hear many say; But the merriest month in all the year Is the merry month of May. Nearly, or quite, one half of #A# has been torn from the manuscript, but there is no reason to suppose that the story differed much from that of #B.#