Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to That Celebrated English Outlaw. to Which Are Prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life.
1925
Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to That Celebrated English Outlaw. to Which Are Prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life.
1925
Here is the original Robin Hood, stripped of Disney gloss and Hollywood revision: a yeoman of the greenwood, not a displaced noble, speaking in the clipped cadences of fifteenth-century English. This collection gathers every surviving medieval ballad, song, and poem that mentions the outlaw of Sherwood and Barnsdale, presenting them in their raw, sometimes contradictory glory. You will find Robin here as a complex figure: a champion who robs from the wealthy yeomanry and distributes coin to peasants, but also a man given to violence, pride, and the occasional moral quibble. The ballads of Little John, Friar Tuck, Allan a Dale, and Maid Marian appear not as polished chapter adventures but as fragments of an oral tradition, passed through taverns and fairs, revised with each retelling. This is where the legend began, in all its rough-hewn, class-warfare glory. For readers tired of sanitized versions, these are the raw materials of the most enduring folk hero in English literature.
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“Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.””
— Unknown
“He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.””
— Unknown
“So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.””
— Unknown
“You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.””
— Unknown
“What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.””
— Unknown
“It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, 'put by thy poor little likings and seek to do likewise.' Truly, one may not do as nobly one's self, but in the striving one is better...””
— Unknown
“(H)ope, be it never so faint, bringeth a gleam into darkness, like a little rushlight that costeth but a groat.””
— Unknown
“An I must drink sour ale, I must, but never have I yielded to a man before, and that without would or mark upon my body. Nor, when I bethink me, will I yield now.””
— Unknown
“When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.””
— Unknown
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