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ROBYN3. Jolly Robin is the common name for a country fellow.

Pandarus quotes a proverb about Jolly Robyn who "pleyed" in the "haselwode," Tr V.1174-1176, a proverb which may refer anachronistically to Robin Hood. Chaucer substitutes an English proverb for original Italian in Il Filostrato VII.10.

Boccaccio, Tutte le opere, ed. V. Branca, II: 188-189; Riverside Chaucer, ed. L. Benson, 1054.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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