17^4. And lay. 18^2. any _for_ no. 23^3. that him did espy. #f.# _Title as in_ #b.# Printed for Alex. Milbourn, Will. Ownley, Tho. Thackeray at the Angel in Duck-lane. (_Date indeterminable: after 1670._) 1^2. doe _wanting_. 1^4. my song. 2^2. good _wanting_. 3^1. fishermen. 3^2. merchants. 3^4. fisherman might be. 4^3. If you have any. 5^1. Now quoth Robin Hood. 5^4. waters. 6^1. of _wanting_. 6^3. said. 7^2. tell it. 7^4. call. 9^2. I will. 9^3. of my. 9^4. sails. 10^1. shalt not want. 10^3. that _wanting_. 12^3. you _wanting_. 12^4. of _wanting_. 14^2. set nothing. 15^3. espyed. 15^4. most _wanting_. 16^3. fish that we have got. 17^1. robber. 17^4. And lay. 18^2. you any. 19^4. There’s but a simple lubber lost. 20^4. And in. 21^1. saith he _wanting_. 21^2. fair. 21^3. bent. 22^4. Frenchmans. 23^1. ship-catch: _so_ #g#. 23^2. there below. 25^1. Then they boarded the French: _so_ #g#. 25^4. in _for_ of. 26^3. other part: I’le give. 26^4. To you. 27^3. hands. 27^4. owner thereof you must. 28^2. for the. #g.# _Title as in_ #b#. Printed for I. Wright, I. Clarke, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger. (1670–86?) _Agrees generally with_ #f#. 17^1. For yon. 149 ROBIN HOOD’S BIRTH, BREEDING, VALOR AND MARRIAGE #a.# Roxburghe, I, 360, in The Ballad Society’s reprint, II, 440. #b.# Pepys, II, 116, No 103. #c.# Pepys, II, 118, No 104. Printed in Dryden’s Miscellany, VI, 346, ed. 1716; A Collection of Old Ballads, 1723, I, 64; Ritson’s Robin Hood, 1795, II, 1 (#a#); Evans, Old Ballads, 1777, 1784, I, 86. The jocular author of this ballad, who would certainly have been diverted by any one’s supposing him to write under the restraints of tradition, brings Adam Bell, Clim, and Cloudesly into company with Robin Hood’s father. So again the silly Second Part of Adam Bell in one of the copies, that of 1616. Robin Hood’s father’s bow, st. 3, carried two north-country miles and an inch. The son, then, was only half his father, though, in Ritson’s words, “Robin Hood and Little John have frequently shot an arrow a measured mile.”