Child Ballads - Narrative

Robin Hood and the Valiant Knight

1. 1. Robin Hood's Garland, London, C. Dicey, Bow Church Yard, n.d., but before 1741, p. 88, Bodleian Library, Douce H H, 88.
   2. Robin Hood's Garland, 1749, without place or printer, p. 101, No 24.
   3. Robin Hood's Garland, London, R. Marshall, in Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, n.d., p. 87, No 27.
   Version A

Evans, Old Ballads, 1777, 1784, I, 232, from an Aldermary garland; Ritson, Robin Hood, 1795, II, 178, from an Aldermary garland, corrected by a York copy.

Written, perhaps, because it was thought that authority should in the end be vindicated against outlaws, which may explain why this piece surpasses in platitude everything that goes before.

Translated by Loève-Veimars, p. 219.

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