Ancient Scottish ballads, recovered from tradition, and never before ...

THE WEDDING OF
ROBIN HOOD AND LITTLE JOHN.
The fame of "bold Robin Hood," (to whom
tradition has assigned the title of Earl of Hun-
tington), and his bon camarado Little John, was
not confined to England, but was well known in
Scotland, where their gallant exploits are yet
remembered, and have become still more fa-
miliar since the publication of " Ivanhoe;" in
which romance
" Robin Hood, and his merry men"
sustain a very prominent part.
Robin Hood was, anciently, celebrated in
Scotland by an annual play or festival; and the
following extract, while it shows the estimation
in which this festival was regarded by the po-
pulace, displays at the same time their lawless
conduct, and the weakness of the civil power,
in the city of Edinburgh in the fourteenth cen-
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