Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage
Ballad | |
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Child | 149 |
Title | Robin Hood's Birth, Breeding, Valor and Marriage |
Versions | 1 |
Variants | 3 |
Stanzas | 55 |
Date | 17th cent. |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-12.
Editions
Scholarly collections
- Child, Francis James, ed.; [Kittredge, G. L.], ed.; [Ireland, Catharine Innes], bibl. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Boston and New York; Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, ©1882-98), vol. III, pp. 214-17.
Notes on matter in the ballad
St. 46: the ballad of Arthur-a-Bradley.] Richard Braithwaite alludes to this ballad in "To the Cottoneers" in his Strappado for the Devil:
So Time shall crowne you with an happy end,
And consummate the wishes of a friend.
So each (through peace of conscience) rapt with pleasure
Shall ioifully begin to dance his meafure.
"One footing actiuely VVilsons delight,
"Descanting on this note, I haue done what's right,
"Another ioying to be nam'd 'mongst them,
"Were made Men-fishers ofpoore fisher-men.
"The third as blith as any tongue can tell,
"Becaufe he's found a faithfull Samuel.
"The fowrth is chanting of his Notes as gladly,
"Keeping the tune for th'honour of Arthura [sic] Bradly.
The 5. so pranke, he scarce can stand on ground,
Asking who'le sing with him Mal Dixons round?[1]
Allusions
Notes
- ↑ [Braithwaite, Richard]. A Strappado For the Diuell. Epigrams and Satyres Alluding to the Time, with Diuers Measures of No Lesse Delight (London, 1615), p. 209. Also cited in Braithwaite, Richard; Haslewood, John, ed.; Hazlitt, William Carew, revis. Barnabæ Itinerarium or Barnabee's Journal (London, 1876), pt. II, [unpaginated].