%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Robin Hood's Delight:/ OR, A merry Combate fought against Robin Hood, little John and Will. Scarlet, and three/ stout Keepers in Sherwood Forrest. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1641-1703 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/05/2007 20734

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2.112 R227350 1 Robin Hood and Queen Katherine.or, Robin Hood and the Shepherd Robin Hood and the Stranger Robin Hood and Queen Katherine; Robin Hood and the Shepherd THer's some will talk of Lords and/ (Knights/ down a down a down, down a down a down, [line 2 of each stanza] Pepys 2.112 Wing R1636 Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 112 Robin Hood's Delight:/ OR, A merry Combate fought against Robin Hood, little John and Will. Scarlet, and three/ stout Keepers in Sherwood Forrest. Robin Hood's Delight: OR, A merry Combate fought against Robin Hood, little John and Will. Scarlet, and three stout Keepers in Sherwood Forrest. Robin Hood's Delight: Or, a Merry Combat Fought Against Robin Hood, Little John and Will. Scarlet, and Three Stout Keepers in Sherwood Forest. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 196 x 330 cropped left edge, damaged surface 1641-1703 Printed for William Thackery at the Angel in Duck lane. William Thackery BBTI

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THer's some will talk of Lords and Knights down a down a down, And some of Yeomen good, But I will tell you of Will. Scarlet, Little John and Robin Hood. They were Outlaws, as 'tis well known, down a etc. And men of a noble blood; And many a time was their valour shown In the Forrest of merry Sherwood. Upon a time it chanced so, down a etc. As Robin would have it be, They all three would a walking go, Some pastime for to see,
And as they walkt the Forrest along, down a etc. Upon a Midsummer day, There was he aware of three Forresters Clad all in green array. With brave long Faulchions by their sides, down a etc. And Forrest-Bills in hand, They call'd aloud to those Outlaws And charged them to stand. Why who are you, cry'd bold Robin, down a etc. That speaks so boldly here? We three belong to King Henry, And are Keepers of his Deer.
THE Devil thou art said Robin Hood, down a etc. I am sure it is not so: We be Keepers in this Forrest, And that you soon shall know. Your Coats of green lay on the ground, down a etc. And so will we all three, And take your swords and bucklers round, And try the Victory. We be content the Keepers said, down a etc. We be three and no less, Then why should we of you be afraid, And we never did transgress. Why if you be the Keepers in this forrest, down a etc. Then we be three Rangers good, And we I make you know before you do go You met with bold Robin Hood. We be content thou bold Outlaw, down a etc. Our valour here to try, And will make you know before we go, We will fight before we will fly. Then come draw your swords you bold Outlaws, down a etc. And no longer stand to [p]rate, But let us try it out with blows, For Cowards we do hate. Here is one of us for Will. Scarlet, down a etc. And another for little John, And I my self for Robin Hood, Because he is stout and strong. So they fell to it full hardy and sore, down a etc. It was on a Midsummers day, From eight a clock till two and past, They all shew'd gallant play. There Robin and Will. and little John, down a etc. They fought most manfully, Till all their wind was spend and gone, Then Robin aloud did cry.
O hold, O hold, cries bold Robin, down a etc. I see you be stout men, Let me blow one blast with my beagle horn, Then i'le fight with you again. That bargin is to make bold Robin Hood, down a etc. Therefore we it deny: Though a blast upon thy beagle horn Cannot make us fight nor flye. Therefore fall on or else be gone, down a etc. And yield to us the day, It shall never be said that we were afraid Of thee nor thy Yeomen gay. If that it be so, cryes bold Robin, down a etc. Let me but know your names, And in the Forrest of merry Sherwood I shall extoll your Fames. And with our names one of them said, down a etc. What hast thou here to do? Except that thou will fight it out, Our names thou shalt not know. We will fight no more says bold Robin, down a etc. You be men of valour stout, Come and go with me to Nottingham, And there we will fight it out. With a Butt of Sack we will bang it out, down a etc. To see who wins the day, And for the cost make you no doubt, I have gold and money to pay. And ever hereafter so long as we live, down a etc. We all will brethren be, For I love those men with heart and hand, That will fight and never flee. So a way they went to Nottingham, down a etc. With Sack to make amends, For three days space they wine did chase, And drank themselves good friends, down a down a down a down.
Printed for William Thackery at the Angel in Duck lane.