A is simply the conclusion given to 'Robin Hood Newly Revived' (No, 128) in the broadsides, and has neither connection with that ballad nor coherence in itself, being on the face of it the beginning and the end of an independent hallad, with the hreak after the third stanza. 3 may possibly refer to the Scots giving up Charles I to the parliamentary commissioners, in 1647. In B, four stanzas appear to have been added to the first three of A in order to make out a story, — the too familiar one of Robin being beaten in a fight with a fellow whom he chances to meet, and consequently enlisting the man as a recruit.
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