1550 - Anonymous - Welspoken Nobody
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2015-09-19.
Allusion
Many speke of Roben hoode that neuer shott in his bowe
So many haue layed faultes to me, which J did neuer knowe,
But nowe beholde here J am
Whom all the worlde doeth diffame
Long haue they also shamed me
And locked my mouthe for speking free [1]
IRHB comments
The German original of this short poem was written by Jörg Schan. Taylor[2] cites another printing of this broadside which slightly different spelling and wording.
Lists
- Not found in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.
- Not found in 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.
Editions
- Anonymous. ¶The Welspoken Nobody ([London]: [c. 1550]). Available online at Huntington Library Digital Collection
Sources
- Taylor, John; Hindley, Charles, ed. Works of John Taylor, the Water Poet (London and Westminster, 1872), p. 5 n. 1.
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