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ROBIN HOOD.
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The ballad, which is as long as Olievy Chace, has only hitherto been discovered
in Dr. Percy's folio manuscript, and the name of the tune is not given. It is
printed in the Beliques of Ancient Poetry ; in Ritson's, and other collections of
songs of Robin Hood.
Cheerfully.
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ROBIN HOOD, ROBIN HOOD, SAID LITTLE JOHN.
An ancient dance-tune of "Roben Hude" is mentioned in Wedderburn's
Complainte of Scotland, 1549, and again in " The pityfull Historie of two loving
Italians, Gaulfrido and Barnado," &c, " translated out of Italian into Englishe
meeter by John Drout. Imprinted by Henry Binneman, 1570 " —
" The minstrell he was called in some pretty jest to play,
Then Robin Hood was called for, and Minikin ere they went;
But Barnard ever to the mayde a loving look he lent,
And he would very fayne have daunct with hir." &c.
This may be the dance in question. It is arranged in Pammelia (1609) as one