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EOBIN HOOD AND THE TANNER. 223 |
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And so ever after, as long as he liv'd, Altho' he was proper and tall,
Yet, nevertheless, the truth to express, Still Little John they did him call. |
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ROBIN HOOD AND THE TANNER;
OB, EOBIN HOOD MET WITH HIS MATCH.
A merry and pleasant song relating the gallant and fierce combat fought between Arthur Bland, a tanner of Nottingham, and Robin Hood, the greatest and most noblest archer of England. Tune is, Robin Hood and the Stranger.
Ritson's Robin Hood, ii. 33, from an old black-letter copy in the collection of Anthony & Wood.
There is a copy with a few unimportant variations in A Collection of Old Ballads, i. 83, from which a single reading has been admitted.
In Nottingham there lives a jolly tanner,
With a hey down, down, a down, down,
His name is Arthur-a-Bland ; There is nere a squire in Nottinghamshire,
Dare bid bold Arthur stand.
With a long pike-staff upon his shoulder, « So well he can clear his way; |
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