 Robin Hood and the Beggar

"Robin Hood and the Beggar" is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad, and is a pair out of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part of the Child ballad collection, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of traditional English ballads.These two ballads share the same basic plot device in which the English folk hero Robin Hood meets a beggar.