The Robin Hood of our ballads is neither patriot under ban, nor proscribed rebel.

That face she remembered now,-theproscribed rebel, John Hancock; governor, not by royal grant, but by the people's will.

"But he is a Siwennian and the son of a proscribed rebel."

The recent revolution in France, the democratic spirit rising in Europe, tend to throw back the cause of a proscribed rebel.