Robin Hood and the jolly Pinder of Wakefield, shewing how he fought with Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John a long summer’s day. To a Northern tune. #b.# 1^1. there dwels. 2^4. it goes. 4^1. saith. 5^1. a _for_ great: saith. 11^2. all. 11^3. that’s. 12^1. thy _for_ the. #c.# 4^3. king’s high. 6^2. fast unto. 6^4. And a. 6^5. that _wanting_. 9^1. covenants. 10^1. thou _wanting_. #d.# The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield with Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John. Printed by and for Alex. Milbourn, in Green-Arbor Court, in the Little Old-Baily. (A. Milbourn, 1670–1697. Chappell.) 3^3. espy’d. 3^4. sat. 4^2. you have. 4^3. the kings. 5^1. a _for_ great. 6^2. foot against. 6^3. they _for_ he. 6^6. broke. 8^1. pinders craft. 8^2. in the. 13^1. was come. 13^4. set _wanting_. #e.# The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield: with Robin Hood, Scarlet and John. _No printer’s name._ 3^3. espyed. 3^4. sat. 4^2. you have. 4^3. kings. 6^1. foot against. 6^6. broke. 8^1. pinders craft. 13^1. was come. 13^4. set _wanting_. Pepys Penny Merriments Garland: _according to Hales and Furnivall_. 6^4. And a. 6^5. that _wanting_. 10^1. thou _wanting_. 12^1. thy pinder. Gutch, Robin Hood, II, 144 f, _says that the Roxburghe copy has in_ 3^1 wight yeomen. _He prints_ 7^{2–4}: And my merry men stand aside; For this is one of the best pinders That with sword ever I tryed. 8^{3–4}. Thou shalt have a livery twice in the year, Th’one greene, tither brown shall be. _These parts of stanzas_ 7, 8 _he gives as from a black-letter copy, which he does not describe_. #B.# _1^{1,2} make half a stanza in the MS., and 1^{3,4} are joined with 2^{1,2}. 4^{5,6} and 5^{1,2} make a stanza. It is not supposed that 4 and 5 were originally stanzas of six lines, but rather that, one half of each of two stanzas having been forgotten, the other has attached itself to a complete stanza which chanced to have the same rhyme. Stanzas of six lines, formed in this way, are common in traditional ballads._ 3^4. guests. 4^3. 2[s :]. in. 125 ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN #a.# A Collection of Old Ballads, 1723, I, 75. #b.# Aldermary Garland, by R. Marshall, n. d., No 22. Ritson, Robin Hood, 1795, II, 138; Evans, Old Ballads, 1777, 1784, I, 204. There is a bad copy in a Robin Hood’s Garland of 1749.