pottes worth
To Nottingham that I led with me?'
'They were worth two nobles,' said he,
'So mote I thrive or thee;
So could I have had for them
And I had there be.'

82.
'Thou shalt have ten pound,' said Robin,
'Of money fair and free;
And ever when thou comest to green wood,
Welcome, potter, to me.'

83.
Thus parted Robin, the sheriff, and the potter,
Underneath the green wood tree;
God have mercy on Robin Hood's soul,
And save all good yeomanry!

[Annotations:
5.4: 'pavage,' road-tax.
7.4: 'wed,' pledge, wager.
8.2: 'and,' if.
9.2: 'toke,' gave.
9.3: 'breyde,' rushed, leapt.
13.4: 'tene,' harm.
16.3: _i.e._ thereat laughed Robin's men.
17.3: 'ackward,' back-handed (?).
18.4: 'yede,' went.
19.4: 'slo,' slay.
20.1: 'a breyde,' haste.
22.4: 'let,' stop, hinder.
23.3: 'And,' if.
25.3: 'But,' unless.
25.4: 'yode,' went.
26.4: 'chepe,' bargain for, buy.
28.1: 'Heyt war howt,' a call to horses while driving, like the
modern 'Gee up.'
32.4: 'hansel' is a gift, especially an 'earnest' or instalment;
'mare' probably is 'more'; but the meaning of the whole phrase
is uncertain.
33.2: 'chaffare,' merchandise.
34.1: 'great chepe' = great bargain.
35.4: 'thee,' thrive.
37.1: 'fain,' glad.
40.3: 'could of courtesy,' knew how to be courteous.
40.4: 'gret,' greeted.
45.3: 'prest,' quickly.
47.3: 'And,' if.
54.1,2: Two lines missing in the MS.; so 57.3.
58.1: 'rede,' advice.
59.1: 'quite' = requite.
59.4: 'dight,' prepared.
60.2: 'busked,' made ready.
60.3: 'ray' = array.
62.2: 'yield it thee,' reward thee for it.
63.3: 'prest,' freely.
64.3: 'awit': either = wit, know, or = await.
66.2,3: Two lines omitted in the MS.
66.4: 'wood,' mad.
72.1: A duplicated deprecation: 'I protest--God forbid!'
72.3,4: Two lines omitted in the MS.; so 74.3,4.
75.3: 'Nere' = ne were, were it not.]

ROBIN HOOD AND GUY OF GISBORNE

+The Text.+--The only text of this ballad is in the Percy Folio, from
which it is here rendered in modern spelling. Although the original is
written continuously, it is almost impossible not to suspect an omission
after 2.2. Child points out, however, that the abrupt transition is
found in other ballads (see _Adam Bell_, 2.2), and Hales and Furnivall
put 2.3,4 in inv