VE LORD WILLOUGHBEY 155

KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY 162

ROBIN HOOD AND THE CURTAL FRIAR 170

ROBIN HOOD AND ALLEN-A-DALE 181

VALENTINE AND URSINE--

Part the First 188
Part the Second 198

THE KING AND THE MILLER OF MANSFIELD--

Part the First 214
Part the Second 222

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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1. SIR GUY OF GISBORNE.

_He took Sir Guy's head by the hair,
And stuck it upon his bow's end_ 11

2. THE CHILDE OF ELLE.

_Pardon, my lord and father dear,
This fair young knight and me_ 28

3. ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH, &C.

_Cloudesly bent a right good bow,
That was of a trusty tree_ 36

4. _They kneeled down without hindrance,
And each held up his hand_ 60

5. SIR LANCELOT DU LAKE.

_She brought him to a river side
And also to a tree_ 76

6. THE FROLICKSOME DUKE. (_Frontispiece._)

_Now he lay something late, in his rich bed of state,
Till at last knights and squires, they on him did wait_ 84

7. CHEVY CHASE.

_Then leaving life, Earl Percy took
The dead man by the hand_ 99

8. KING EDWARD AND THE TANNER.

_The tanner he pull'd, the tanner he sweat,
And held by the pummel fast_ 114

9. THE HEIR OF LINNE.

_And he pull'd forth three bags of gold,
And laid them down upon the board_ 130

10. SIR ANDREW BARTON.

_They boarded then his noble ship,
They boarded it with might and main_ 150

11. THE BRAVE LORD WILLOUGHBEY.

_They kneeled on the ground,
And praised God devoutly_ 157

12. THE ABBOT OF CANTERBURY.

_Then home rode the abbo