all lend us daie enough,
And tell a tale of Gawen or Sir Guy,
Of Robin Hood, or of good Clem of the Clough.'

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--C'est une vieille chanson.
--Qui l'a faite?
--On ne sait pas.
--Quand?
--On ne sait pas.
--Quand tu etais petit?
--Avant que je fusse au monde, avant qu'y fut mon pere,
et le pere de mon pere, et le pere du pere de mon pere.
Cela a toujours ete.

--ROLLAND, _L'Aube_.

CONTENTS
Page

Preface vii
Introduction to the Robin Hood Ballads xi

A GEST OF ROBYN HODE 1
The First Fytte 5
The Second Fytte 20
The Third Fytte 32
The Fourth Fytte 43
The Fifth Fytte 57
The Sixth Fytte 64
The Seventh Fytte 72
The Eighth Fytte 84

ROBIN AND GANDELEYN 92
ROBIN HOOD AND THE MONK 96
ROBIN HOOD AND THE POTTER 113
ROBIN HOOD AND GUY OF GISBORNE 128
ROBIN HOOD'S DEATH 140
ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH AND
WILLIAM OF CLOUDESLY 147
JOHNNY O' COCKLEY'S WELL 177
THE OUTLAW MURRAY 183
SIR ANDREW BARTON 196
HENRY MARTYN 213
JOHN DORY 216
CAPTAIN WARD AND THE RAINBOW 219
THE SWEET TRINITY 224

PREFACE

This volume concludes the series, begun in 1903, which was intended to
comprise all the best traditional ballads of England and Scotland. The
scheme of classification by subject-matter, arbitrary and haphazard as
it may seem to be at one point or another, has, I think, proved more
satisfactory than could have been anticipated; and in