The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 3 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
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God aboue giue all men grace
In quiet for to liue,
And not rebelliously abroad
Their princes for to grieue.
110
Let not the hope of pardon mooue
A subiect to attempt
His soueraigne’s anger, or his loue
From him for to exempt.
111
But that all men may ready be
With all their maine and might
To serue the Lord, and loue the King,
In honor, day and night!
* * * * *
#a.# 1^4. In mickle.
6^1. Some.
13^4. canst thou.
20^3. man’s y-meat.
21^2. he fro.
28^2. I drest.
35^2. That her purpose he had of sped.
35^4. they read.
37^4. amaze.
46^1. was yso.
64^1. ythen.
76^2. euery chone.
92^1. more subjects true.
93^3. Which _for_ Where.
#b.# 1^4. In many.
5^2. will _for_ well.
6^1. Soone.
6^3. to thee.
13^1. sword _for_ strong.
13^4. thou canst.
18^4. I must.
19^1. ffowle.
19^4. was neuer.
20^3. man’s meate.
21^2. him ffroe.
21^3. dop the.
22^3. slaine ffor thee & mee.
28^2. To see: well drest.
31^1. God speed.
31^3. doe yee.
32^1. woman _for_ Ione.
32^2. in _wanting_: to you.
35^2. of her purpose shee had sped.
35^4. they did tread.
37^3. a maze.
40^3. The ffattest.
44^3. mist Cisleys companye.
45^2. allured this.
46^1. soe.
52^4. in my _for_ now in.
57^2. That was both stiffe.
57^4. Weer neere.
61^1. strong & stout.
66^1. Will_ia_m.
68^2. Itt was the best.
73^2. You shall be hanged.
73^3. plott yee have.
76^2. euer-eche one.
78^3. The craued.
79^4. I tell you verry true.
86^1. Liuings.
92^1. subiects more true.
93^3. Where.
97^1. Gramercy.
100^4. Welcome shee shall bee soone.
104^1. is gone.
105^4. cheefe estate.
106^4. rooted.
107^3. ffought _for_ sought.
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A GEST OF ROBYN HODE
#a.# ‘A Gest of Robyn Hode,’ without printer’s name, date, or place;
the eleventh and last piece in a volume in the Advocates’ Library,
Edinburgh. Reprinted by David Laing, 1827, with nine pieces from the
press of Walter Chepman and Androw Myllar, Edinburgh, 1508, and one
other, by a printer unknown, under the title of The Knightly Tale of
Golagrus and Gawane, and other Ancient Poems.
#b.# ‘A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode,’ etc., London, Wynken de Worde, n.
d.: Library of the University of Cambridge.
#c.# Douce Fragment, No 16: Bodleian Library.
#d.# Douce Fragment, No 17: Bodleian Library.
#e.# Douce Fragment, No 16: Bodleian Library.[29]
#f.# ‘A Mery Geste of Robyn Hoode,’ etc., London, Wyllyam Copland, n.
d.: British Museum, C. 21. c.
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