Robin Hood's Death is the 120th ballad of the Child ballads collection published 由 Houghton Mifflin. The fragmentary Percy Folio version of it appears to be one of the oldest existing tales of Robin Hood; there is a synopsis of the story in the fifteenth century A Gest of Robyn Hode.[1] A later broadside version of the ballad also exists, which includes the famous detail of Robin Hood's last bowshot.
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In the fragmentary Percy Folio version Robin 兜帽, 罩, 发动机罩 goes to get himself bled (a common medieval medical practice) 由 his cousin, a prioress. He refuses a bodyguard that Will Scarlet...
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