1587 - Churchyard, Thomas - Worthiness of Wales

Allusion
Date	c. 1587
Author	Churchyard, Thomas
Title	The Worthines of Wales
Mentions	Robin Hood; a jest [Gest?]; old wives' tales; King Arthur

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Allusion

And though we count, but Robin Hood a Jest,
And old wiues tales, as tatling toyes appeare:
Yet Arthurs raigne, the world cannot denye,
Such proofe there is, the troth thereof to trye:
That who so speakes, against so graue a thing,
Shall blush to blot, the shame of such a King.

IRHB comments

Original in black letter, except the words here italicized being in Roman type.

Notes

Lists

• Not in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.
• Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88; see p. 283.

Editions

• Churchyard, Thomas. THE Worthines of Wales: VVherein are more Then a Thousand Seuerall Things Rehearsed: some Set out in Prose to the Pleasure of the Reader, and with Such Varietie of Verse For the Beautifying of the Book, as No Doubt Shal Delight Thousands to Vnderstand. Which Worke is Enterlarded with many Wonders and Right Strange Matter to Consider of (Imprinted at London, 1587), sig [C4r].
• Churchyard, Thomas. The Worthines of Wales, a Poem. A True Note of the Auncient Castles, Famous Monuments, Goodly Rivers, Faire Bridges, Fine Townes, and Courteous People, That I have Seen in the Noble Countrie of Wales, and Now Set Forth. Reprinted (London, 1776). Not seen.
• Churchyard, Thomas; Crossley, James, introd. The Worthines of Wales. Reprinted from the Original Edition (Publications of the Spenser Society, No. 20) (, 1876); allusion p. 27.

Also see

• Gest of Robyn Hode.

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