With allowance. Printed for F. Cole, T. Vere, J. Wright and J. Clarke. (Coles, Vere and Wright, 1655–80, J. Clarke, 1650–82: _Chappell_.) 11^4. Alllin. 18^1. wealhty. 22^3. marrid. #b.# _Title, etc., as in_ #a#. With allowance. Printed for Alex. Milbourn, in Green-Arbor-Court, in the Little-Old-Baily. (Alexander Milbourne 1670–97: _Chappell_.) 1^3. tell you. 2^3. he was aware. 10^2. she was from me tane. 16^1. dost thou here. 16^2. unto. 18^4. like the. 19^1. not a fit: qd. 25^2. for _wanting_. 26^1. then _wanting_. 26^3. And _wanting_. 27^1. having ende of. 27^2. lookt like a. #c.# Robin Hood and Allen a Dale: Or, the manner of Robin Hood’s rescuing a young lady from an old knight to whom she was going to be married, and restoring her to Allen a Dale, her former love. To the tune of Robin Hood in the green wood. _No printer._ Sold in Bow-Church-Yard, London. 1^3. tell you. 2^3. aware. 4^3. spy. 5^2. quite _for_ clean. 6^2. Midge _for_ Nick. 9^3. these seven. 10^2. she was from me taen. 11^2. any _wanting_. 13^4. for _wanting_. 16^1. do _wanting_: then _for_ he. 16^2. unto me. 17^1. then _for_ he. 18^4. Who shone like the glittering. 19^1. not a fit. 19^4. she _wanting_. 22^3. at the. 24^3. Robin he. 24^4. This coat. 25^1. to _for_ into. 25^2. for _wanting_. 26^1. me _wanting_: maid, says. 27^2. bride she lookd like a. 139 ROBIN HOOD’S PROGRESS TO NOTTINGHAM #a.# Wood, 402, leaf 14 b. #b.# Wood, 401, leaf 37 b. #c.# Garland of 1663, No 2. #d.# Garland of 1670, No 1. #e.# Pepys, II, 104, No 92. This piece occurs also in the Roxburghe Ballads, III, 270, 845, the Douce, III, 120, was among Heber’s ballads (a copy by W. Onley), and is probably in all collections of broadsides. #a# or #b# was printed by Ritson, Robin Hood, 1795, II, 12. A copy in Evans’s Old Ballads, 1777, 1784, I, 96, is later, and very like Douce, III, 120. When Robin Hood is but fifteen years of age, he falls in with fifteen foresters who are drinking together at Nottingham. They hear with scorn that he intends to take part in a shooting-match. He wagers with them that he will kill a hart at a hundred rod, and does this. They refuse to pay, and bid him begone if he would save his sides from a basting. Robin kills them all with his bow; people come out from Nottingham to take him, but get very much hurt. Robin goes to the green wood; the townsmen bury the foresters.