There are seven other ballads, besides The Pinder of Wakefield, in which Robin Hood, after trying his strength with a stout fellow, and coming off somewhat or very much the worse, induces his antagonist to enlist in his company. Several of these are very late, and most of them imitations, we may say, of the Pinder, or one of the other. These ballads are: Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar; Robin Hood and Little John; Robin Hood and the Tanner; Robin Hood and the Tinker, 28 ff; Robin Hood Revived; Robin Hood and the Ranger; Robin Hood and the Scotchman. We might add Robin Hood and Maid Marian. The episode of Little John and the Cook, in the Gest, 165–171, is after the same pattern. There is another set in which a contest of a like description does not result in an accession to the outlaw-band. These are Robin Hood and the Potter; Robin Hood and the Butcher; Robin Hood and the Beggar, I; Robin Hood and the Beggar, II (Robin Hood first beaten, then three of his men severely handled); Robin Hood and the Shepherd (Robin Hood overmastered, Little John on the point of being beaten, etc.); The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood (John outmatched first, then his master); Robin Hood’s Delight (combat between Robin Hood, Little John, and Scadlock and three Keepers); Robin Hood and the Pedlars (again three to three). There are, as might be expected, frequent verbal agreements in these ballads, and many of them are collected by Fricke, Die Robin-Hood-Balladen, pp 91–95. The fights in these ballads last from an hour, Gest, st. 168, to a long summer’s day, in this ballad, st. 6. In Robin Hood and Maid Marian, st. 11, the time is at least an hour, or more; in Robin Hood and the Tanner, st. 20, two hours and more; in Robin Hood and the Ranger, st. 12, three hours; in Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar, #B# 24, and Robin Hood and the Shepherd, st. 11, from ten o’clock till four; in Robin Hood’s Delight, st. 11, from eight o’clock till two, and past. A #a.# Wood, 402, leaf 43. #b.# Garland of 1663, No 4. #c.# Garland of 1670, No 3. #d.# Pepys, II, 100, No 87 a. #e.# Wood, 401, leaf 61 b. 1 In Wakefield there lives a jolly pinder, In Wakefield, all on a green; (_bis_) 2 ‘There is neither knight nor squire,’ said the pinder, ‘Nor baron that is so bold, (_bis_) Dare make a trespasse to the town of Wakefield, But his pledge goes to the pinfold.’ (_bis_) 3 All this beheard three witty young men, ’Twas Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John; With that they spyed the jolly pinder, As he sate under a thorn. 4 ‘Now turn again, turn again,’ said the pinder, ‘For a wrong way have you gone; For you have forsaken the king his highway, And made a path over the corn.’ 5 ‘O that were great shame,’ said jolly Robin, ‘We being three, and thou but one:’ The pinder leapt back then thirty good foot, ’Twas thirty good foot and one.