Robin Hood._

Hear undernead dis laitl stean
Laiz robert earl of Huntingtun.
Near arcir ver az hie sa geud,
An pipl kauld im robin heud.
Sick utlawz az hi an iz men
Vil england nivr si agen.
Obiit 24 (? 14) kal dekembris, 1247.

Dr. Gale (dean of York).

_Robin Hood's Fat Friar_ was Friar Tuck.

_Robin Hood's Men_, outlaws, freebooters.

There came sodainly twelve men all appareled in short cotes of
Kentish Kendal [_green_] ... every one of them ... like outlaws or
Robyn Hodes men.--Hall (_fo._ lvi. _b_).

=Robin Redbreast.= One tradition is that the robin pecked a thorn out of
the crown of thorns when Christ was on His way to Calvary, and the blood
which issued from the wound, falling on the bird, dyed its breast red.

Another tradition is that it carries in its bill dew to those shut up in
the burning lake, and its breast is red from being scorched by the fire
of Gehenna.

He brings cool dew in his little bill,
And lets it fall on the souls of sin;
You can see the mark on his red breast still,
Of fires that scorch as he drops it in.

J. G. Whittier, _The Robin_.

=Robin Redbreasts=, Bow Street officers. So called from their red vests.

=Robin Roughhead=, a poor cottager and farm laborer, the son of Lord
Lackwit. On the death of his lordship, Robin Roughhead comes into the
title and estates. This brings out the best qualities of his
heart--liberality, benevolence and honesty. He marries Dolly, to whom he
was already engaged, and becomes the good genius of the peasantry on his
estate.--Allingham, _Fortune's Frolic_.

=Robin and Makyne= (2 _syl._), an old Scotch pastoral. Robin is a
shepherd, for whom Makyne sighs, but he turns a deaf ear to her, and she
goes home to weep. In time, Robin sighs for Makyne, but she replies, "He
who wills not when he may, when he wills he shall have nay."--Percy,
_Reliques, etc._, II.

=Robin of Bagshot=, _alias_ Gordon, _alias_ Bluff Bob, _alias_ Carbuncle,
_alias_ Bob Booty, one of Macheath's gang of thieves, and a favorite of
Mrs. Peachum's.--Gay, _The Beggar's Opera_ (1727).

=Robins= (_Zerubbabel_), in Cromwell's troop.--Sir W. Scott, _Woodstock_
(time, Commonwealth).

=Robinson Cru'soe= (2 _syl._), a tale by Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe ran
away from home, and went to sea. Being wrecked, he led for many years a
solitary existence on an uninhabited island of the tropics, and rel