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Ballads">Child</a> 136) is an English folk song.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is a story in the <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a> canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English <a href="/wiki/Broadside_ballad" title="Broadside ballad">broadside</a> <a href="/wiki/Ballad" title="Ballad">ballad</a>, and is one of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part of the <a href="/wiki/Child_ballad" class="mw-redirect" title="Child ballad">Child ballad</a> collection, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of traditional English ballads. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robin_Hood%27s_Delight&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>One midsummer day, <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Will_Scarlet" title="Will Scarlet">Will Scarlock</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Little_John" title="Little John">Little John</a> are walking in the forest in search of diversion when they meet with three foresters clad in green and carrying <a href="/wiki/Falchions" class="mw-redirect" title="Falchions">faulchions</a> and forest-<a href="/wiki/Bill_(weapon)" title="Bill (weapon)">bills</a>, who challenge them. Robin asks who they are and they reply that they are keepers of King Henry's deer, but Robin doesn't believe them, claiming that he and his men are the keepers. He issues a counter-challenge that they take off their green coats and try a fight. They fight from eight o'clock in the morning until two in the afternoon, until all their breath is spent. Then Robin calls a truce that the foresters allow him to sound his horn. They refuse Robin permission, and so Robin asks them their names so that he might become friendly with them and convince them to come drink with him and his men instead of fighting. He assures the foresters that he will pay for the drink, and that they have already proven their valor and are therefore fit to join him and his men. The foresters agree, and they all go to Nottingham and bond over wine for three days. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_and_cultural_significance">Historical and cultural significance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robin_Hood%27s_Delight&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Historical and cultural significance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This ballad is part of a group of ballads about <a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a> that in turn, like many of the popular ballads collected by <a href="/wiki/Francis_James_Child" title="Francis James Child">Francis James Child</a>, were in their time considered a threat to the <a href="/wiki/Protestantism" title="Protestantism">Protestant religion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Puritanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Puritanism">Puritan</a> writers, like Edward Dering writing in 1572, considered such tales "'childish follye'" and "'witless devices.'"<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Writing of the Robin Hood ballads after <i>A Gest of Robyn Hode</i>, their Victorian collector <a href="/wiki/Francis_James_Child" title="Francis James Child">Francis Child</a> claimed that variations on the "'Robin met with his match'" theme, such as this ballad, are "sometimes wearisome, sometimes sickening," and that "a considerable part of the Robin Hood poetry looks like char-work done for the petty press, and should be judged as such."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Child had also called the Roxburghe and Pepys collections (in which some of these ballads are included) "'<i>veritable dung-hills</i> [...], in which only after a great deal of sickening grubbing, one finds a very moderate jewel.'"<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, as <a href="/wiki/Folkloristics" class="mw-redirect" title="Folkloristics">folklorist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ethnomusicology" title="Ethnomusicology">ethnomusicologist</a> Mary Ellen Brown has pointed out, Child's denigration of the later Robin Hood ballads is evidence of an ideological view he shared with many other scholars of his time who wanted to exclude cheap printed ballads such as these from their pedigree of the <a href="/wiki/Oral_tradition" title="Oral tradition">oral tradition</a> and early <a href="/wiki/Literature" title="Literature">literature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Brown_69_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown_69-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Child and others were reluctant to include such broadsides in their collections because they thought they "regularized the text, rather than reflecting and/or participating in tradition, which fostered multiformity."<sup id="cite_ref-Brown_69_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown_69-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the other hand, the broadsides are significant in themselves as showing, as English jurist and legal scholar <a href="/wiki/John_Selden" title="John Selden">John Selden</a> (1584–1654) puts it, "'how the wind sits. As take a straw and throw it up in the air; you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels.'"<sup id="cite_ref-Fumerton_1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fumerton_1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even though the broadsides are cultural ephemera, unlike weightier tomes, they are important because they are markers of contemporary "current events and popular trends."<sup id="cite_ref-Fumerton_1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fumerton_1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It has been speculated that in his time Robin Hood represented a figure of <a href="/wiki/Peasant" title="Peasant">peasant</a> revolt, but the <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">English</a> <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">medieval</a> <a href="/wiki/Historian" title="Historian">historian</a> <a href="/wiki/J._C._Holt" class="mw-redirect" title="J. C. Holt">J. C. Holt</a> has argued that the tales developed among the gentry, that he is a yeoman rather than a peasant, and that the tales do not mention peasants' complaints, such as oppressive taxes.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moreover, he does not seem to rebel against societal standards but to uphold them by being munificent, devout, and affable.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other scholars have seen the literature around Robin Hood as reflecting the interests of the common people against <a href="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">feudalism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The latter interpretation supports Selden's view that popular ballads provide a valuable window onto the thoughts and feelings of the common people on topical matters: for the peasantry, Robin Hood may have been a redemptive figure. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archival_holdings">Archival holdings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robin_Hood%27s_Delight&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Archival holdings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu">English Broadside Ballad Archive</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Santa_Barbara" title="University of California, Santa Barbara">University of California, Santa Barbara</a> holds two seventeenth-century <a href="/wiki/Broadside_ballad" title="Broadside ballad">broadside</a> <a href="/wiki/Ballad" title="Ballad">ballad</a> versions of this tale: one in the <a 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"Child's ballads and the broadside conundrum". In Patricia Fumerton; Anita Guerrini; Kris McAbee (eds.). <i>Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500–1800</i>. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. pp. 57–72. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7546-6248-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7546-6248-8"><bdi>978-0-7546-6248-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Child%27s+ballads+and+the+broadside+conundrum&rft.btitle=Ballads+and+Broadsides+in+Britain%2C+1500%E2%80%931800&rft.place=Burlington%2C+VT&rft.pages=57-72&rft.pub=Ashgate+Publishing+Company&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-7546-6248-8&rft.aulast=Brown&rft.aufirst=Mary+Ellen&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARobin+Hood%27s+Delight" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChild2003" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Francis_James_Child" title="Francis James Child">Child, Francis James</a>, ed. 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