93 Altho good Robin would full fain Of his wrong revenged be, He smil’d to see his merry young men Had gotten a taste of the tree. * * * * * #a.# The History of Robin Hood and the Beggar: in two Parts. Part I: Shewing how Robin Hood, in attempting to rob a Beggar near Barnesdale, was shamefully defeated, and left for dead, till taken up by three of his men. Part II: How the beggar blinded two of his men with a bag of meal, who were sent to kill him or bring him back. _Title prefixed to the ballad_: Robin Hood and the Beggar. _In stanzas of two long lines. After 30_: The Second Part. 22^3. arrows. 30^1. but sail: _that is_, but ſail. 38^3. you _for_ your. 41^2. ill a case: _which perhaps should be retained_. 46^1. and _for_ with. 46^4. the eild. 48^3. a another. 51^4. fate: #b#, late, _that is_, let. 53^3. quite. 65^4. fly: #b#, flee. 77^3. sling: _that is_, ſling. 79^3. strick. 89^2. where and. #b.# _In stanzas of two long lines._ _Some of these readings may be Ritson’s corrections._ 1^2. That be. 2^4. a _wanting_. 3^2. Who _for_ That. 4^2. frae the. 5^2. whang. 5^3. to a. 7^1. cast. 8^3. heard him not. 8^4. on his. 9^1. ’Tis be. 9^3. said. 11^3. shares well. 11^4. dost not care. 12^1. all this. 12^3. would I. 13^1. you must. 13^2. two _wanting_. 14^1. art a. 15^2. asembled. 15^3. has. 16^1. Come lay. 17^3. if _wanting_. 20^4. Wouldst: it _wanting_. 21^4. Lo eer. 22^3. arrow. 24^{2,4}. mair, sair. 25^3. ſlaps. 26^2. baiſt. 26^3. laid on loud _for_ still on laid. 27^1. Fy _wanting_. 27^3. still till: money told. 28^4. hast been at the. 29^3. pale _for_ white. 30^1. but fail. 30^2. his way. 30^3. ye. 31^2. by the. 31^4. where that he lay. 33^2. wound. 34^1. gotten _for_ taken. 34^2. unto. 34^3. to hitch his ear. 34^4. speak. 35^1. said. 36^2. this twenty. 36^4. ye. 37^2. Of whom. 37^3. with his. 37^4. ‘twill. 38^1. out _wanting_. 38^3. eer ye. 40^4. escape. 41^2. ill at ease. 42^3. And he. 43^1. ye, good _wanting_. 43^4. has. 44^5. ye. 45^3. hands lay. 45^4. Ye. 46^1. with his. 46^4. his eild. 47^3. no _wanting_. 47^4. Then he. 48^{1,2}. _wanting._ 49^1. They stoutly. 49^3. They started at neither how nor height. 50^2. cast them. 51^2. In each. 51^3. them nigh. 51^4. thought of no such late. 54^3. let it.