54^4. An better might it been. 55^2. any _for_ one. 56^1. Nor wist he. 56^4. He _for_ And. 57^2. on the. 57^3. And hold. 57^4. Or else. 58^2. Neither by late or air. 58^3. You have great sin if you would. 59^2. For all. 59^4. Of one that eer. 60^1. shall. 62^3. led back. 63^3. he might the young men. 63^4. gave them a begack. 64^1. for _wanting_: for ill. 64^3. blew _for_ grew. 65^2. a poor. 65^4. flee. 66^2. has. 66^4. Is better. 67^1. fair and. 67^2. no more dear. 67^4. odd _for_ good. 68^1. this. 69^1. to the. 69^3. full well. 70^3. And yet: not take. 70^4. that place. 71^3. for _wanting_. 72^2. forth thy. 72^3. turn that. 72^4. It’s: plee _for_ fee. 74^3. lay he. 75^1. half, _that is_, half. 76^1. this cloak: set it. 76^3. bound. 77^2. bag _for_ meal. 77^3. fling. 77^4. face all hail. 79^2. cloath. 79^3. strike. 80^1. Eer any of. 80^2. Or a glimmering might. 80^4. with his. 81^2. boldly bound. 82^1. What’s all this. 82^2. May not thou. 83^4. Can ripe. 85^2. in vain. 87^1. meat rife part. 87^3. at the. 87^4. at your. 88^1. they drooped. 88^3. a sound. 88^4. ye. 89^1. less or. 89^2. what and. 90^1. And when. 90^4. presses _for_ process. 91^{1,2}. _wanting._ 91^3. woods. 92^2. were baste. 93^2. his wrath. 135 ROBIN HOOD AND THE SHEPHERD #a.# Garland of 1663, No 13. #b.# Garland of 1670, No 12. #c.# Wood, 401, leaf 13 b. #d.# Pepys, II, 115, No 102. Roxburghe, II, 392, III, 284; Douce, III, 115 b, by L. How, of the eighteenth century. A manuscript copy in the British Museum, Add. 15072, fol. 59, is #a#, with omission of 12^2–15^4, and a few errors of carelessness. Printed in Ritson’s Robin Hood from #c# and one of the Roxburghe broadsides. Evans, Old Ballads, 1777, 1784, I, 136, seems to have followed the Aldermary garland, with slight deviation. Robin Hood, walking in the forest, finds a shepherd lying on the ground, and bids him rise and show what he has in his bottle and bag. The shepherd tells him that he shall not see a drop of his bottle until his valor has been tried. Robin stakes twenty pound on the issue of a fight, and the shepherd his bag and bottle. They fight from ten to four, hook against sword. Robin Hood falls to the ground, and the shepherd calls on him to own himself beaten. Robin demands the boon of three blasts on his horn. These bring Little John, who undertakes the shepherd, and is so roughly handled that Robin is fain to yield his wager, to which Little John heartily agrees.