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Title: The pictorial book of ancient ballad poetry of Great Britain, historical, traditional, and romantic: to which are added, a selection of modern imitations, and some translations
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph S., ed. (from old catalog)
Subjects: English ballads and songs
Publisher: London, H. Washbourne & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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gude faith, they fight on each side, Would I were with my wife Joan !The enemy compast brave Robin about, Tis long ere the battel ends;Theres neither will yield, nor give up the field, For both are supplied with friends.This song it was made in Robin Hoods dayes ; Lets pray unto Jove above,To give us true peace, that mischief may cease, And war may give place unto love. (Pt. 2. St. 22. Alcaron, says Ritson, is a deity formed by metathesis from Alcoran, a (the) book. Thus in the old metrical romance of The Sowdon of Babylone, And songe the dirige of Alkaron,That bibill is of here laye ;Alkaron is expressly the name of a book, (i. e., The Koran) : iH the following passage it is that ofa god : He defyed Mahounde, and Apolyne,Jubiter, Astarot, and Alcaron also.Wynken de Worde printed A lytell treatyse of the Turkes law, called Alcaron, &c. See Herbert,224. It was, at the same time, a proper name in the East; as, Accaron princeps insula; Cypri*,is mentioned by Roger Hoveden, 786.) 123
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<%1# ^A (This ballad is printed from Ritsons Robin Hood;where it is given from a black-letter copy in the possessionof the Duke of Roxburgh. The full title of the original,says Ritson, * is, A new ballad of bold Robin Hood: shew-ing his birth, breeding, valour, and marriage at TitburyBull-running. Calculated for the meridian of Staffordshire,but may serve for Derbyshire or Kent. With regard to itsantiquity, the editor of the Collection of Old Ballads,1723, thinks it one of the oldest extant on the subject.On the other hand, to Dr. Percy it seems of much laterdate than most of the others ; and can scarce be older, hesays, • than the reign of King Charles I. (Reliques, I. cii.)For this opinion, and for thinking that it is not found inthe Pepys collection, Ritson, after his manner, falls foul ofthe Bishop ; without, however, doing more than pointingout that in the second volume of that collection, anyperson disposed to the search, will find at least two copiesof it, both in black le

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