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Text The Percy Folio is the sole authority for this excellent ballad and the text of the MS is therefore given here literatim in preference to the copy served up 'with considerable corrections' by Percy in the Reliques I have however substituted a few obvious emendations suggested by Professor Child giving the Folio reading in a footnote	A
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The Story is practically identical with that of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard but each is so good though in a different vein that neither could be excluded	B
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The last stanza narrates the practice of burning a cross on the flesh of the right shoulder when setting forth to the Holy Land a practice which obtained only among the very devout or superstitious of the Crusaders Usually a cross of red cloth attached to the right shoulder of the coat was deemed sufficient	C
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OLD ROBIN OF PORTINGALE	D
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God let neuer soe old a man	E
Marry soe yonge a wiffe	F
As did old Robin of Portingale	D
He may rue all the dayes of his liffe	F
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Ffor the Maior's daughter of Lin God wott	C
He chose her to his wife	F
thought to haue liued in quiettnesse	G
With her all the dayes of his liffe	F
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They had not in their wed bed laid	C
Scarcly were both on sleepe	H
But vpp she rose forth shee goes	G
To Sir Gyles fast can weepe	H
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Saies 'Sleepe you wake you faire Sir Gyles	G
Or be not you within '	-
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'But I am waking sweete ' he said	C
'Lady what is your will '	-
'I haue vnbethought me of a wile	D
How my wed lord we shall spill	D
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'Four and twenty knights ' she sayes	G
'That dwells about this towne	I
Eene four and twenty of my next cozens	G
Will helpe to dinge him downe '	-
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With that beheard his litle foote page	J
As he was watering his master's steed	C
Soe	G
His verry heart did bleed	C
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He mourned sikt wept full sore	K
I sweare by the holy roode	C
The teares he for his master wept	C
Were blend water bloude	C
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With that beheard his deare master	L
As in his garden sate	C
Sayes 'Euer alacke my litle page	J
What causes thee to weepe	H
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'Hath any one done to thee wronge	J
Any of thy fellowes here	M
Or is any of thy good friends dead	C
Which makes thee shed such teares	G
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'Or if it be my head kookes man	E
Greiued againe he shalbe	N
Nor noe man within my howse	G
Shall doe wrong vnto thee '	-
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'But it is not your head kookes man	E
Nor none of his degree	O
But or tomorrow ere it be noone	P
You are deemed to die	C
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' of that thanke your head steward	C
after your gay ladie '	-
'If it be true my litle foote page	J
Ile make thee heyre of all my land '	-
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'If it be not true my deare master	L
God let me neuer thye '	-
'If it be not true thou litle foot page	J
A dead corse shalt thou be '	-
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He called downe his head kooke's man	E
'Cooke in kitchen super to dresse'	G
'All anon my deare master	L
Anon att your request '	-
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' call you downe my faire Lady	O
This night to supp with mee '	-
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downe then came that fayre Lady	O
Was cladd all in purple palle	D
The rings that were vpon her fingers	G
Cast light thorrow the hall	D
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'What is your will my owne wed Lord	C
What is your will with me '	-
'I am sicke fayre Lady	O
Sore sicke like to dye '	-
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'But you be sicke my owne wed Lord	C
Soe sore it greiueth mee	O
But my maydens my selfe	F
Will goe make your bedd	C
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' at the wakening of your first sleepe	H
You shall haue a hott drinke made	C
at the wakening of your next sleepe	H
Your sorrowes will haue a slake '	-
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He put a silke cote on his backe	Q
Was inches folde	C
put a steele cap vpon his head	C
Was gilded with good red gold	C
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he layd a bright browne sword by his side	C
another att his ffeete	C
full well knew old Robin then	R
Whether he shold wake or sleepe	H
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about the middle time of the night	C
Came good knights in	S
Sir Gyles he was the formost man	E
Soe well he knew that ginne	E
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Old Robin with a bright browne sword	C
Sir Gyles' head he did winne	E
Soe did he all those	G
Neuer a one went quicke out agen	E
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None but one litle foot page	J
Crept forth at a window of stone	E
he had armes when he came in	E
And when he went out he had none	E
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Vpp then came that ladie light	C
With torches burning bright	C
Shee thought to haue brought Sir Gyles a drinke	Q
But shee found her owne wedd knight	C
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the first thing that this ladye stumbled vpon	E
Was of Sir Gyles his ffoote	C
Sayes 'Euer alacke woe is me	O
Heere lyes my sweete hart roote '	-
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the d thing that this ladie stumbled on	E
Was of Sir Gyles his head	C
Sayes 'Euer alacke woe is me	O
Heere lyes my true loue deade '	-
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Hee cutt the papps beside her brest	C
bad her wish her will	D
he cutt the eares beside her heade	C
bade her wish on still	D
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'Mickle is the man's blood I haue spent	C
To doe thee me some good'	C
Sayes 'Euer alacke my fayre Lady	C
I thinke that I was woode '	-
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He call'd then vp his litle foote page	J
made him heyre of all his land	C
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he shope the crosse in his right sholder	L
Of the white flesh the redd	C
he went him into the holy land	C
Wheras Christ was quicke and dead	C

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