![]() ![]() “Now come I, forsooth, from good Banbury Town," said the jolly Tinker, "and no one nigh Nottingham-nor Sherwood either, an that be the mark- can hold cudgel with my grip. "By the breath of my body, Allan," quoth he, "thou hast” ![]() ![]() For his characters' dialog, Pyle adapted the late Middle English of the ballads into a dialect suitable. Written and illustrated by Howard Pyle American Publisher Charles Scribners Sons. Pyle compiled the traditional Robin Hood ballads as a series of episodes of a coherent narrative. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Reknown, in Nottinghamshire. Where the quivering rushes hiss and sigh,Īnd his eyes gleamed sharp like the stars at night,Īnd my heartstrings shrunk with an awful bliss,īut she sat all straight with a drooping head,įor her heart was stilled and her face was dead:Īll listened in silence and when Allan a Dale had done King Richard heaved a sigh. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. “Then Allan touched his harp lightly, and all words were hushed while he sang thus: "'Oh, where has thou been, my daughter?Īnd the gray sky broods o'er the leaden tide, ![]()
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