Originally prepared for textual analysis during his PhD research on the 'Origins and Development of English Folk Plays' by Peter Millington (2002).
Original spelling and typography is retained, except that superscripts, long s and ligatured forms are not encoded.
Line identifiers are those used for line types in the Folk Play Scripts Explorer.
"NOTE 1.
The earlier part of this text is a corrupt version of the ballad of Robin Hood and the Tanner, Arthur a Bland. The following quotations are from English and Scottish Ballads, edited from the collection of F.J.Child, by H.C.Sargent and G.L.Kittredge, and the marginal numbers indicate the order of the stanzas as printed in that volume."
The verses are then quoted by Tiddy in the following order: 24, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 9, 14, 15, 29, 30, 31 & 32.
"NOTE 2.
In some verses headed The Infallible Mountebank. Or, Quack Doctor, which occur in a small undated volume entitled The Harangues, or Speeches of several celebrated Quack-Doctors, in Town and Country; By Various Hands [[London: Printed for] J.Robinson, at the Golden-Lion in Ludgate Circus; and Sold at the Pamphlet-Shops in London and Westminster. Price 6d.] a quack makes the usual boast that he can cure
all Ills." Indexer's Note:
Past, present, and to come;
The Cramp, the Stitch,
The Squirt, the Itch,
The Gout, the Stone, the Pox,
The Mulligrubs,
The Bonny Scrubs,
And all Pandora's Box.
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