Descriptive notices of popular English histories / by James Orchard Halliwell.

  • James Halliwell-Phillipps
Date:
1848
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    tired thousand Frenchmen, &c. 12mo. London, Bow-Church Yard, n. d. This gives us an account of the amours of Edward and his son the Black Prince. On the title is a cut of English archers besieging a French city. 103. The Witch of the Woodlands, or the Cobler’s new Translation. Here Robin the Cobler, for his former evils. Is punish’d bad as Paustus with his devils. 12mo. London, n. d. A very curious tract, of which I have several edi- tions, differing only in the wood-cuts. It commences: “In the weilds of Kent, not far from Romney Marsh, there dwelt an old merry-conceited cobler, commonly called Robin the Devil, who afterwards was called the Witch of the Woodlands.” He gets into the power of some witches, who transform him into a fox, a horse, and a swan ; but, in the end, meets with a beggar-man, who leaves him a fortune. The annexed cut of the witches is taken from p. 12. Chap. 1. Robin’s place of abode : he is married to a wench; with his pitiful lamentation. 2. Robin runs away, and the entertainment he found on the road. 3. Robin wakes in the morning, and missed his bed- fellow, who soon returns with some witches; the manner of his punishment, and other particulars. 4. Robin goes to London; ivith his bitter lamentation on the road. 5. Robin meets an old blind beggar. 6. Robin lives with a beggar, who dies and leaves him all
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