Note 594 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 6)

The greater part of those that have come down to us are of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; but Robin was very popular, and his praises were sung as early as the fourteenth century. The lazy parson in Langland's Visions confesses that he is incapable of chanting the services:

Ed. Skeat, text B. v. 402. See above, p. 224.