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Robin Hood's Death is the 120th ballad of the Child ballads collection published by 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.〔Holt, J. C. ''Robin Hood'' p. 25 (1982) Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27541-6.〕 A later broadside version of the ballad also exists, which includes the famous detail of Robin Hood's last bowshot. ==Synopsis== In the fragmentary Percy Folio version Robin Hood goes to get himself bled (a common medieval medical practice) by his cousin, a prioress. He refuses a bodyguard that Will Scarlet offers and takes only Little John. The prioress treacherously lets out too much blood, killing him, or her lover Sir Roger of Doncaster stabs him while he's weak, in revenge for Robin's side of the family inheriting their land and title. Robin Hood claims some consolation though in that he mortally wounds Roger prior to his own demise. Little John wishes to avenge him, but Robin forbids it, because he has never harmed a woman. An old woman appears early on the journey "banning" Robin Hood. The manuscript breaks off for half a page with the outlaws asking why she is doing it. "Banning" is usually taken as "cursing" him, but may mean "lamenting" — predicting his death and weeping in advance. In the next surviving fragment Robin Hood appears to be reassuring someone who has warned him he is going to his death.
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