English and Scottish Ballads, Volume 5

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Francis James Child
Little, Brown, 1860
 

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Página 278 - What is thy name?" then said Robin Hood, "Come tell me, without any fail." "By the faith of my body," then said the young man, "My name it is Allin a Dale.
Página 309 - I'll not grant thee; I never hurt woman in all my life, Nor man in woman's company. " I never hurt fair maid in all my time, Nor at mine end shall it be ; But give me my bent bow in my hand, And a broad arrow I'll let flee, And where this arrow is taken up, There shall my grave digged be.
Página 44 - LITHE and lysten, gentylmen, That be of frebore blode ; I shall you tell of a good yeman, His name was Robyn Hode. Robyn was a proude outlawe, « Whyles he walked on grounde ; So curteyse an outlawe as he was one Was never none yfounde.
Página 1 - In somer, when the shawes be sheyne, And leves be large and long, Hit is full mery in feyre foreste To here the foulys song : "To se the dere draw to the dale, And leve the hilles hee, And shadow hem in the leves grene. Under the grene-wode tre.1 " Hit befel on Whitsontide, Erly in a May mornyng, The son up feyre can shyne, And the briddis mery can syng. "'This is a mery mornyng...
Página 276 - COME listen to me, you gallants so free, All you that love mirth for to hear, And I will tell you of a bold outlaw That lived in Nottinghamshire. As Robin Hood in the forest stood, * All under the green-wood tree, There he was aware of a brave young man, As fme as fine might be.
Página 342 - Two north country miles and an inch at a shot, As the Finder of Wakefield does know. For he brought Adam Bell, and dim of the Clugh, And William of " Clowdesle," To shoot with our forrester for forty mark, And the forrester beat them all three.
Página 163 - His shoote it was but loosely shott, Yet flewe not the arrowe in vaine, . For itt mett one of the sheriffes men, Good William a Trent was slaine. It had bene better of William a Trent To have bene abed with sorrowe, Than to be that day in the green wood slade To meet with Little Johns arrowe.
Página 105 - After Robyn Hode, And after that gentyll knyght, That was so bolde and stout. Whan they had tolde hym the case Our kynge understonde ther tale, w And seased in his honde The knyghtes londes all.
Página 140 - Now are we in," sayde Adam Bell, " Thereof we are full faine, But Christ knoweth that harowed hell, How we shall com out agayne." " Had we the keys," said Clim of the Clough, " Ryght wel then shoulde we spede ; Then might we come out wel ynough, When we se tyme and nede.
Página 420 - ROBYN HODE. Of all the men in the* morning thou art the worst ; To mete with the I have no lust, For he that meteth a frere or a fox in the morning, To spede ill...

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