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216 KOBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN.
So away they went to Nottingham,
With sack to make amends ; For three days they the wine did chase, as
And drank themselves good friends. |
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ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN.
Being an account of their first meeting, their fierce encounter, and conquest. To which is added, their friendly agreement; and how he came to be called Little John. To the tune of Arthur a Bland. From A Collection of Old Ballads, i. 75'. The same
in E.itson'8 Robin Hood, ii. 142.
" This ballad is named in a schedule of such things
under an agreement between W. Thackeray and
others, in 1689 (Coll. Pepys, vol. v.)." Ritson.
"When Robin Hood was about twenty years old, With a hey down, down, and a down,
He happen'd to meet Little John, A jolly brisk blade, right fit for the trade,
For he was a lusty young man.
Tho' he was call'd Little, his limbs they were large,
And his stature was seven foot high ; »
Where-ever he came, they quak'd at his name,
For soon he would make them to fly. |
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