Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Gest of Robin Hood
In his English and Scottish Popular Ballads, in which the Gest has been printed from the earliest editions, Professor Child has collected in a long and elaborate introduction to that poem all available information as to the date of its publication and the probable period of its composition. There are seven early edi tions, three of them mere fragments.
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