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Robin Hood (Dramatic Reading) - Amice MacDonell · Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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  Speaker 1: Act One at robin Hood by Ammas mac donald. This
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  Speaker 2: Characters Represented robin Hood read by Christine G.
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  Speaker 3: Will Scarlett read by Beth Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: Little John read by Brad Philippone, Much read.
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  Speaker 1: Boy Es de Benzomondis allan.
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  Speaker 5: Adale read by James Curran.
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  Speaker 6: Friar Tuck read by Ted DeLorme.
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  Speaker 7: Sir Richard at the Lee read by Summon.
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  Speaker 8: Bar Maid Marian read by Lydia.
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  Speaker 5: The Sheriff of Nottingham read by James Curran.
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  Speaker 9: The Sheriff's Wife read by Newgate Nautilist.
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  Speaker 10: The Baron of the Black Castle read by Todd Guy
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  Speaker 10: read by Larry Wilson.
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  Speaker 11: Antony read by Rebenzilina.
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  Speaker 12: Avisa read by Bethany Baldwin.
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  Speaker 1: Jock read by Elijah Fisher, Joan read by.
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  Speaker 13: Abbe King read by Fred About.
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  Speaker 14: Queen Eleanor read by Adalde Pinurlis.
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  Speaker 15: First Lady in Waiting read by Brea Snow.
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  Speaker 16: Second Lady in Waiting read by Abain.
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  Speaker 17: Third Lady in Waiting read by Vanessa Cooley.
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  Speaker 18: The Messenger read by Asher Grave.
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  Speaker 1: Stage directions by Rachel robin Hood prologue.
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  Speaker 3: We greet you all, and bid you stay and look
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  Speaker 3: upon our little play. Here is the tale of robin Hood,
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  Speaker 3: whose court was in the gay Greenwood, whose merry men
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  Speaker 3: went to and fro more than six hundred years ago. Knight,
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  Speaker 3: King Maid, Marian, you shall see come from the land
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  Speaker 3: of Poesy. Smile kind on them whose bows were bent
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  Speaker 3: to shield the weak where'er they went, and you may
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  Speaker 3: give a little sigh at helpless woe in days gone by,
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  Speaker 3: and last we beg if skies be gray and winter.
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  Speaker 3: Here believe tis may our little stage, the forest glade,
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  Speaker 3: our curtain of the fresh leaves made, Come with us
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  Speaker 3: to the gay green Wood in the good old days
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  Speaker 3: of robin Hood.
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  Speaker 1: Act one, scene one noon, May day under an oak
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  Speaker 1: in sherwood forest. Logs are benches in center and on
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  Speaker 1: left and rate of stage, food jugs, dishes, treasure chest, scales,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. On the extreme right of stage. Enter left
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  Speaker 1: robin Hood with scarlet little John, much tuck allan a dale.
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  Speaker 19: Now you would don't care for sake, and the right
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  Speaker 19: merrily should take his good ball in his hand, and
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  Speaker 19: should hide.
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  Speaker 3: A greenwood tree, the green tree, and should hide the
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  Speaker 3: green wood tree.
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  Speaker 4: For the bows wave likely overhead, and.
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  Speaker 5: The birds sing loud and free.
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  Speaker 3: And he's marry, very very.
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  Speaker 19: Married down marry green and marrying the green wood tree.
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  Speaker 19: The sun gravely and the sound.
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  Speaker 3: Strillhorn each his trust, his trust, his trust for.
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  Speaker 4: The bowers wave likely over head, and.
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  Speaker 19: The birds sing loud and free, and his marrying marry
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  Speaker 19: down to marry the green wood green wood tree, and
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  Speaker 19: marry needs the green wood.
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  Speaker 1: Robin Hood to tak who sinks down on right hand log?
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  Speaker 2: What ails you? You look sad amongst us marry arches
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  Speaker 2: the may day was want to be a time of
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  Speaker 2: mirth and feasting feisting.
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  Speaker 6: There speaks by Master Robin Hood, King of good fellowship.
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  Speaker 6: It's food that aileth me, or rather ra should say
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  Speaker 6: it is the great lack of it.
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  Speaker 1: Scarlet steps forward, stands center.
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  Speaker 3: It must be near on noon, look at the sun, friar.
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  Speaker 1: Tuck stands up, leans back and gazes up at the sky.
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  Speaker 6: Hi, some of you hold me up. I fight for
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  Speaker 6: hunger and cannot see the sun for emptiness.
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  Speaker 1: Much supports Tuck behind and then pulls him down on
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  Speaker 1: to right hand log. Match steps forward.
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  Speaker 14: We've wanted money now, Master chasing the red deer yonder
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  Speaker 14: is meat roasted on the fire, shall not keep may
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  Speaker 14: day with some feasting.
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  Speaker 1: Robin Hood seats himself on center log.
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  Speaker 2: I will not dine today until we find a guest
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  Speaker 2: with whom to share our dinner.
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  Speaker 4: Singing an archery and no meat kill any man. I
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  Speaker 4: must be propped up by this log.
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  Speaker 1: Until I yes, you come sits down on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Poor little John. I will not break my fast, I
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  Speaker 2: tell you, until a guest cometh.
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  Speaker 1: Tuck lifts clasped hands.
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  Speaker 6: Heaven send us guests in haste support me. I am
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  Speaker 6: so hungry. I shall eat the oak leaves ere long.
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  Speaker 2: Little John, Little John, Aye, Master, go little John, and
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  Speaker 2: look forth by on the beach, look up and down
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  Speaker 2: the glade, and see if no man cometh.
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  Speaker 1: Little John gets up slowly.
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  Speaker 4: Since my master commanded, I will.
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  Speaker 1: Go walk slowly to left of stage. Scarlet. Looking towards
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  Speaker 1: left of stage.
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  Speaker 3: Pray that some rich abbot be coming on his fat mule,
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  Speaker 3: laden with gold, costly raiment, and barrels of wine, white
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  Speaker 3: cakes and pasties.
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  Speaker 14: Oh speak not of all this.
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  Speaker 3: I am not so faint with hunger that I would
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  Speaker 3: not try a turn of the quarter staff with the
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  Speaker 3: strongest traveler that ever came this way.
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  Speaker 1: Shakes his quarter staff.
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  Speaker 2: Nay, scarlet, we will use. The next traveler who comes
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  Speaker 2: to this road with courtesy.
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  Speaker 1: Strings his bow.
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  Speaker 3: May I not break his head with my quarter staff?
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  Speaker 2: No, we'll keep that for others.
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  Speaker 3: I care not who tastes of my good quarter staff.
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  Speaker 2: The next travelers shall share our meal, whoever they be.
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  Speaker 2: See you any one coming, little John?
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  Speaker 1: Little John turns round, not but oaks and beeches.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, nay, a last is but a hair in yonder break.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it had been a man in brown raiment.
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  Speaker 1: His mind is distracted. Robin Hood goes on stringing his bow.
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  Speaker 1: Look longer, Little John rises.
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  Speaker 2: Hackey, all we hold Harney. It is may day, and
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  Speaker 2: we have no may Queen for our sports. Perhaps she
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  Speaker 2: too will come this blithe morning. Quel verily, see you.
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  Speaker 4: Ought only two wood doves flying away. Alas for our dinner,
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  Speaker 4: I will come.
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  Speaker 1: And look, goes left to little John. Robin Hood sits
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  Speaker 1: down again.
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  Speaker 2: Have patience, master master, behold our company.
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  Speaker 1: Come rushes back to tuck, I said the guests would come.
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  Speaker 1: Tuck falls on his.
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  Speaker 6: Knees our dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Cometh jumps up and calls to Little John in.
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  Speaker 6: What guys comes our dinner to us?
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  Speaker 4: A knight at a lady downcast and sorrowful they seem
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  Speaker 4: the lady Weepeth.
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  Speaker 2: Wat them and bring them to me.
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  Speaker 1: Little John kneels to Knight and Marian, who enter and
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  Speaker 1: left looking sad and clad in ragged clothes. What will you,
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  Speaker 1: Little John?
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  Speaker 4: Rising, My master greets you and bid you dine with him.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks, gentle friend, we will willingly do so, for my
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  Speaker 7: daughter is nigh to fainting with weariness and hunger.
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  Speaker 6: And so are we all, Oh, dinner, dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Little John brings Knight and lady to robin Hood.
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  Speaker 4: Here, Master are your guests.
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  Speaker 1: Little John is on left side of stage. Robin Hood
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  Speaker 1: holds out his hands.
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  Speaker 2: You are welcome, and you, gentle lady. Did I not
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  Speaker 2: say that they would come to share our dinner and
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  Speaker 2: make glad his day? We have tarried for you when
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  Speaker 2: faced them, until you came.
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  Speaker 7: We thank you greatly, verily, kind friend.
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  Speaker 8: At the sight of so many archers, my heart did
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  Speaker 8: quake with fear.
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  Speaker 2: These are my merry men, and I am, Robin Hoot.
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  Speaker 1: Night starts back, Robin Hoot the outlaw?
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  Speaker 8: Are you the fierce outlaw of the forest?
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  Speaker 20: I am?
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  Speaker 1: He takes her hand and leads to a seat on
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  Speaker 1: a center log.
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  Speaker 2: Yet fear nothing, fair lady. We are winded d well
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  Speaker 2: as in the woods who live on what we kill
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  Speaker 2: with our bows and arrows. But no carets she shall
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  Speaker 2: be lacking to you.
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  Speaker 1: Stands on right of Marian. Bring the feast, Alan Adale
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  Speaker 1: and Mutch fetch food from right, set it on ground
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  Speaker 1: in front of center log, and return to their places
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  Speaker 1: on right. Robin Hood to Night, pointing to left hand log.
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  Speaker 2: Will you not be seated?
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  Speaker 1: Nate sits down sadly you are sad.
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  Speaker 7: Sir Knight, verily, I am good king of the woods.
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  Speaker 1: Robin Hood pours out wine and fills a cap, which
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  Speaker 1: he hands to Night.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here is somewhat to jay you.
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  Speaker 1: Let us all fall to robin Hood hands round food
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  Speaker 1: and they all eat.
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  Speaker 7: Methinks you have saved my daughter's life. I could almost
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  Speaker 7: forget my griefs in seeing her revive.
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  Speaker 8: I am indeed refreshed.
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  Speaker 1: Little John comes from place on left and hands food
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  Speaker 1: to Night.
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  Speaker 4: You must also eat good sir.
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  Speaker 1: Returns to theft.
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  Speaker 7: Alas I have but little appetite.
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  Speaker 1: Match springs forward.
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  Speaker 14: Are you sick?
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  Speaker 1: I have most excellent us the forest that will cure.
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  Speaker 7: You, wise physician. No herbs of the forest could cure
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  Speaker 7: my ill, which is a sorrowing heart.
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  Speaker 2: But rest with us, and canst care us?
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  Speaker 3: We in the woods are merry.
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  Speaker 7: Would I could be married too?
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  Speaker 1: Here be fairer ill.
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  Speaker 7: While I must endure the scorn of my enemies.
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  Speaker 1: Much takes allen Dale's hand. We live in good fellowship.
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  Speaker 7: My friends have all forsaken me.
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  Speaker 1: Hides his face alas it is truth. Robin hood sits
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  Speaker 1: on center larg rate of Marian.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Knight and fair lady, unfold to us your grief?
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  Speaker 2: Have we not all of us known hard days?
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  Speaker 3: Verily, Master, there are brambles and miles in every man's road.
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  Speaker 4: I could weep for pity.
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  Speaker 2: We'll fill up his cup. Go on, good, sir, who
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  Speaker 2: are you?
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  Speaker 7: I am a knight of the West Country. In many
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  Speaker 7: a pitched battle have I fought, And with the cross
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  Speaker 7: upon my shield I slew the heathen in holy land.
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  Speaker 7: Sir Richard at the lee is my name, and this
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  Speaker 7: is my daughter, who is called Marian.
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  Speaker 8: Fair lands were ours, a castle by the Swift River
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  Speaker 8: which rises in the West Mountains.
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  Speaker 7: It was a goodly heritage I had, but evil days
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  Speaker 7: fell on us alack my brother slew by mishap a
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  Speaker 7: knight in attorney, And to save my brother in his right,
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  Speaker 7: I was forced to pledge all I had to the
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  Speaker 7: Sheriff of Nottingham.
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  Speaker 3: The Sheriff of Nottingham. He is our deadly foe. He'd
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  Speaker 3: throw us poor archers in black donjons if he could
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  Speaker 3: catch us well.
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  Speaker 7: It was to him I pledged my lance and castle.
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  Speaker 7: And if I cannot pay him pound four hundred before
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  Speaker 7: to morrow eve, they are all forfeit. I can pay
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  Speaker 7: it no way.
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  Speaker 2: What will you do if he cannot get money? Good friend?
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  Speaker 7: Alas my lance and all will be the proud sheriffs,
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  Speaker 7: and I shall go over the seas with my daughter
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  Speaker 7: to some distant land.
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  Speaker 4: Alas, poor lady beggars.
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  Speaker 1: Shall we be Mary in weeps.
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  Speaker 7: You have done us good service and given us bountiful detainment,
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  Speaker 7: but a lack I can only repay your kindness with
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  Speaker 7: this miserable coin. See my bag is empty.
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  Speaker 1: Little John looks in tuck rises and looks both raise
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  Speaker 1: their hands.
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  Speaker 4: He is empty.
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  Speaker 2: Quite quite, no coin will I take now, But one day,
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  Speaker 2: sur night, you shall pay me well for this dinner
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  Speaker 2: and for your fair broad land.
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  Speaker 1: Besides, little John beckons to little John, who comes over
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  Speaker 1: to right of robin Hood.
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  Speaker 2: Can we help the night verily?
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  Speaker 4: Master? I think we can.
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  Speaker 2: Little John and you Scarlet fetch out out Treashery who
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  Speaker 2: has the key?
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  Speaker 1: I have the key, produces big key. Little John and
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  Speaker 1: Scarlet go to rite of stage and fetched chest, which
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  Speaker 1: they sit down and center front of stage. Much unlocks it.
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  Speaker 1: Then Scarlet returns to his place behind Tuck, and Much
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  Speaker 1: to his place on left of Allan a Dale. Little
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  Speaker 1: John stands right of robin Hood.
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  Speaker 2: Who has the scales.
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  Speaker 5: Here are the scales?
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  Speaker 1: Holds up scales way out for.
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  Speaker 2: Hundred pounds that will redeem the lands and castle.
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  Speaker 1: Allan and Dale weighs out gold, which robin Hood takes
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  Speaker 1: in hands to night. Allan and Dale goes back to
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  Speaker 1: his place.
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  Speaker 2: Nay, but good, robin Hood, you shall return in a
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  Speaker 2: year and pay me.
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  Speaker 1: Night Rises, we nea can thank you, Marian Rises.
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  Speaker 8: Nay, never, noble robin Hood.
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  Speaker 7: A year from today ere it behind noon we will
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  Speaker 7: stand beneath this oak, and deliver you the pound four hundred.
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  Speaker 8: And bless you for our kindest friend. Never shall we
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  Speaker 8: think on Barnsdale or Sherwood without blessing Robin Hood and
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  Speaker 8: his brave men.
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  Speaker 2: It is well it is to call a friend an
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  Speaker 2: hour a neat master.
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  Speaker 4: Their raymit is full worn and ragged. Methinks we might
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  Speaker 4: furnish them somewhat better.
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  Speaker 2: Little John, you are right. Fetch hither our cloth.
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  Speaker 1: Go to Allan a Dale, to Knight and Marian.
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  Speaker 2: Those who taste the hospitality of the woods should wear
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  Speaker 2: the merry livery of the forest.
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  Speaker 8: Would you clothe us like tree in the springtime?
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  Speaker 2: Little John must give you of our good cloth of
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  Speaker 2: Lincoln green.
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  Speaker 1: Allan Adale fetches cloth and spreads it out in front
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  Speaker 1: of stage. Scarlet comes forward with his bow.
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  Speaker 3: Here is my bow to measure out the cloth.
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  Speaker 1: He kneels and measures cloth, which Allan a Dale holds
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  Speaker 1: out much, stands on tiptoe and looks over Tuck's shoulder.
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  Speaker 14: Look to eat good bow length?
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  Speaker 1: Does he add a piece?
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  Speaker 6: He thinks that all men be as big as himself.
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  Speaker 1: When cloth is cut, it is given to little John
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  Speaker 1: Scarlet and Allan a Dale returned to their places.
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  Speaker 2: That is well.
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  Speaker 4: A brave knight should not ride alone. Would it not
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  Speaker 4: seemly to have a squire to wait upon him and
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  Speaker 4: the gentle lady.
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  Speaker 2: You speak truth, Go little John with a knight and
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  Speaker 2: the lady. Guide them through the forest and wait on
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  Speaker 2: them with reverence, fight their battles, follow them wheresoever they
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  Speaker 2: bid you go, I.
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  Speaker 4: Will, good Master, since you command, I will go with
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  Speaker 4: into the world.
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  Speaker 1: Goes over to left and stands behind night.
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  Speaker 7: We shall have a trusty squire. He will return with
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  Speaker 7: us next year. Faithfully we will repay the money. But
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  Speaker 7: never can we tell our thanks.
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  Speaker 2: I did it full gladly. Come back as you promise
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  Speaker 2: by noon on May Day.
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  Speaker 8: We will, we will, And I.
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  Speaker 2: Would ask a boon fair lady come back and be
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  Speaker 2: our queen of May in the forest.
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  Speaker 4: A queen of May.
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  Speaker 21: I will, I will, I will be your queen of May.
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  Speaker 21: When are you as ruled our way? You shall hold
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  Speaker 21: my goods?
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  Speaker 8: Okay, vows of green, of binding, cuckoo flowers and birds
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  Speaker 8: are they for our bright crown? Winding hey s?
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  Speaker 22: Then oh sweet spring, draw nigh summer, pass thou nightly
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  Speaker 22: by winter, when nice snowflakes fly, and the rest of
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  Speaker 22: taking silent like the woods we like, until those springs
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  Speaker 22: are wake. I will be or Queen of May coming
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  Speaker 22: back upon Thursday. Greenwood's witness what I say, burting five
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  Speaker 22: hours blinding to thee or will find hour by by
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  Speaker 22: roads or ra for winding.
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  Speaker 1: Marying the night and little John go out left, followed
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  Speaker 1: by Robin Hood and his men. End of Act one,
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  Speaker 1: Act two of Robin Hood by Amice MacDonald. This is
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  Speaker 1: Act two, Scene one, next day, the house of the
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff of Nottingham. Narrow table slightly on right in center
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  Speaker 1: of stage, jug and cups. Three chairs enter left, Sheriff
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  Speaker 1: and Baron with scroll and money bags. They seat themselves
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  Speaker 1: at table, Sheriff facing audience, Baron at right end of table.
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's wife enters left and sits spinning on extreme right
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  Speaker 1: of stage.
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  Speaker 5: A hundred and ten eleven careful twelve.
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  Speaker 1: A noise heard outside on left. Baron looks up angrily
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  Speaker 1: and banks his fist on table.
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  Speaker 10: There is a sound outside.
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  Speaker 5: We are watched, go on giving me my money.
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  Speaker 1: Sound comes again?
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  Speaker 5: Never have I peace from morn till night.
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  Speaker 1: Enter on left, Anthony and guy dragging in, Jock and
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  Speaker 1: Joan bound.
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  Speaker 5: What is it, Sarah?
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  Speaker 10: Who are these villains?
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  Speaker 11: I know not nor care either. They have killed the
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  Speaker 11: King's deer in the forest, tis.
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  Speaker 5: On, who will silent? I know you? You have slain
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  Speaker 5: the King's red deer, robbed on the high road. Frightened,
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  Speaker 5: honest men, innocent?
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  Speaker 1: Enter from left, Avisa in haste, goes center.
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  Speaker 12: They are innocent. Tis a false tale which is told
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  Speaker 12: against them.
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  Speaker 1: Hark be silent, comes over to rate and stands by
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  Speaker 1: barren facing left.
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  Speaker 10: Listen, good sir, fulling them into the deepest dungeon that
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  Speaker 10: you have.
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  Speaker 1: Wife looks up from her work.
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  Speaker 9: The dungeon is terrible. Close by the moat, the water
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  Speaker 9: creeps in at certain seasons of the years.
• 18:39
  Speaker 23: Does no harm?
• 18:42
  Speaker 12: Have pity? Listen, wise judges, hear the truth. It was
• 18:47
  Speaker 12: a false tale he told.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Turns and points to Anthony.
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: You dare to say that iceberg falls?
• 18:55
  Speaker 12: Yay? I dare to say it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 11: I'll shut you in the dungeon if you're are not silent.
• 19:01
  Speaker 12: They did not slay the deer. Another man had done it,
• 19:04
  Speaker 12: and he fled and left my children.
• 19:06
  Speaker 11: To be seized.
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: That is an idle tale we have so often heard.
• 19:12
  Speaker 10: Folks say we did not slay the deer. Our ears
• 19:15
  Speaker 10: are weary of the jest.
• 19:17
  Speaker 12: A jest, say you, sweet lady, Will you entreat for
• 19:21
  Speaker 12: my poor son and daughter?
• 19:24
  Speaker 9: I cannot I know more of the matter.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Avisa niels for tender pity's sake.
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: He thinks, I grieve for you, But in this world
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: poor grief is often unavailing. I beg you speak no
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: more to.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Me, turns away. Avisa rises up.
• 19:42
  Speaker 12: What shall I do when you have torn away my children?
• 19:46
  Speaker 12: You have the world to live in, but only sorrow
• 19:49
  Speaker 12: for my company.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Baron rises angrily, bangs down his fist on the table.
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: I pray you'd take away these chattering jays, bid all
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: this idle clamor cease.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Come, seizes them again, take them away to a visa.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: It is vain go.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: As Jock and Joan are taken out, they look back
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: and say aside to Avisa.
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  Speaker 3: Courage, good mother.
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  Speaker 24: If we escape death, we will fly to the forest
• 20:17
  Speaker 24: and join the outlaw of robin hood.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Join us another in the forest.
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: Will ye not take them?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Hence away with you all Anthony and Guy with Jock
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: and Joan go out lap followed by a visa. Weeping
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Baron sits down.
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: It is a lack of courtesy in you, Sir Sheriff,
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: to have this evil ragged rabble clamoring here, when I
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: have made this journey to your house on weighty business.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: I crave your pardon. I must do justice to all men.
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: I care not what you must do. I must have
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: the lands. I need them.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Methinks four hundred pounds is but a little sum to
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: pay for them.
• 20:55
  Speaker 10: What would you have?
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: It should be two hundred pounds more? Methinks, well I
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: must have them.
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: Whate'er I pay.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: Eight hundred or a little sum to pay for such
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: fair lands. The castle stands by the river, guarded well.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: From thence you behold all all the plain. There are
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: deep meadows, corn lands, forests full of deer.
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: These these must be mine.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: You must pay for them. Think of the danger that
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: I run the knight, Sir Richard at the lee, they
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: return to pay me.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Baron leans back in chair and laughs, ha.
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: Ha ha, return and pay you. He's dead, drowned, hanged
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: his bones lie white on. Some far shore.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Wife looks up.
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: Think what you do?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Baron leans his elbows on table.
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah, we will think a curse will come on you
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: if you defarb the knight and his poor daughter.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: You know not what you talk about.
• 21:55
  Speaker 10: We'll talk no more either. I must have the lands,
• 21:58
  Speaker 10: and you want the gold old money.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Bags Unrul's parchment.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: Deed, the gold, the gold. Yes, yes, but verry little
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: tis not quite the hour.
• 22:09
  Speaker 10: I will not wait.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: He may return or the hour has come.
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: Baron stands choose, Will you sign this paper and have
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: the money? If not, my horse is at the door,
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: and I'll be gone.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Sheriff signs paper and then clutches bags of gold.
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: Your night will not return and I shall have my land.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Wife rises, Oh, you have done an evil deed. Sheriff
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: clasps bags.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Go hence and leave us mind. You're spinning.
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: Oh what a tangled web it is. Beware hog even now.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Someone knocks at the gate, laughs and goes out left.
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  Speaker 1: Enter on left, Knight and Marian in poor clothes, followed
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: by little John, his green clothes hidden by a cloak
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  Speaker 1: which he keeps over his face. Sheriff falls back in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: his chair.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: What is the night come? What have I done?
• 23:08
  Speaker 10: I know not? I have got my lands. I trust you,
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: old Rascal.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Nate, and little John kneel.
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: Ha ha ha I thought, so he has come to
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: beg another month wherein to pay the money? See how
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: he humbly kneels. You cannot have another hour?
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Nay, not one hour?
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Rises.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: I lent you gold, pure gold, in your great need.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: Would you not grant us further delay?
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Not a moment, sits down and pulls Sheriff into his seat.
• 23:39
  Speaker 10: Drink to me, sir, Sheriff. The knight may kneel a while.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Fills cups from which they drink.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: If you've no money, hence from the hall.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Night rises Little John.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: Also you are uncourteous to let me kneel. I have
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: fought in battles and in the holy land, and served
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: the king as well as you have ever done. That
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: you should treat me.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Thus you had better give him money, so that you
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: hold the lens in peace.
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  Speaker 10: Here is a bag of gold.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Nay, give him more, or you may ruin it.
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  Speaker 1: Night snaps his foot down.
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  Speaker 4: What is this?
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  Speaker 5: You say?
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  Speaker 18: No?
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  Speaker 7: Never shall falls Baron or Sheriff hold my lands. Come hither,
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: Come hither, good squire.
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  Speaker 1: Little John gives bag of money to Night, who strides
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: up to table and flings down bag.
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  Speaker 7: Here is your money, Sheriff, take it. I have paid
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  Speaker 7: you before the hour.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Baron to sheriff, wretch, you have cheated me.
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  Speaker 10: I must have the lands for which I paid you.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: So you have bought and sold my heritage.
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff clutches that money.
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  Speaker 5: I will keep the gold.
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  Speaker 10: If I die, I will tell the king of your villainies,
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: unjust judge, but.
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  Speaker 5: Let me keep my money.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Drops back in chair.
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  Speaker 5: I am sore stricken. I shall die.
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  Speaker 1: That is not to me tonight.
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  Speaker 10: Where did you get the money to pay the debt?
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  Speaker 10: I'll find the rascal who has furnished you with gold
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  Speaker 10: to spite me.
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  Speaker 1: Springs up and rushes at Little John.
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  Speaker 10: Who is that muffled wretch?
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Pulls off his hood what green raiment?
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  Speaker 10: It is one of Robin Hood's outlaws. I troll seize him?
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: 'tis robin Hood has led you the money? 'tis?
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: He?
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: Seize him? Hi, Anthony guy, find the cutthroat servant.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Little John bends his bow. Baron springs back.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: I will protect the servant of good.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Robin Hood shields Marian and little John with his sword,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and they all three pass out left. Baron rushes after them,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: then turns.
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: They're gone, but I will be revenged.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Wife enters left.
• 25:47
  Speaker 9: It seems your counsels have not prospered.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Looks at Sheriff. He sits silent and crushed.
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: Look how he trembles.
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: Oh, let him tremble that a miserable outlaw should have
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: thwarted me. He is not far from here, and I
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: will hunt him down. Then I will give in the
• 26:03
  Speaker 10: King's hand the boldest outlaw in his land.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Baron goes out left with John's sword, followed by Sheriff,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: supported by his wife. Scene too. Some months later, Sherwood
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: forest a bush on right of stage. Enter left, Robin Hood,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Tuck Scarlet, March alan Adale, join hands and dance round
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: in a ring, and then sing.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: The string and laugh?
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: Who knows what the day will ring?
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: And laugh? Who knows what the day will ring?
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: And laugh?
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: And who knows what the day will ringing?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: The sunshine?
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: Who the day will bring?
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: The shine?
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  Speaker 3: Who knows what the day will bring?
• 27:03
  Speaker 13: Sometimes?
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Who knows what the day will bring?
• 27:10
  Speaker 25: Straight to where they go?
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: You know who? An event room said, who knows what
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: the day where they go?
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: You know with eventurooms who knows the day will bring?
• 27:23
  Speaker 25: Where they go?
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  Speaker 4: You know.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: Who knows what?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Robin hood scarlet march alan Adale dants off left. Tuck
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: worlds around.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: Singing, who knows what the day will bring?
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Knocks against Jack and Joan, who rushing from left? The
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: ess from the Dungeon's men are on our truck. How
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: does Tuck pushes them behind and jumps in front of
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Bush on right? Anthony and guy rushing from left?
• 27:58
  Speaker 25: Where are those the wretches?
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Tuck spreads his dress and makes himself as big as
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: he can.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: What wretches?
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: Why they were flying through the wood?
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: Which wood?
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: This would?
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: They are knaves, brother and sister who slew the King's deer.
• 28:15
  Speaker 11: They've joined the outlaws. They broke loose from prison?
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: What prison?
• 28:21
  Speaker 11: Why the sheriff's prison? Fool?
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: Call me a fool?
• 28:25
  Speaker 25: I am a friar.
• 28:27
  Speaker 11: We care not who you are.
• 28:29
  Speaker 25: Why do you stand like that?
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: That is my matter, not yours.
• 28:34
  Speaker 20: II?
• 28:34
  Speaker 11: Why look you so into the beech tree?
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: Because I tire of looking on your face? Get you gone?
• 28:43
  Speaker 11: We are the barnsmen.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: I cannot I have a better master than yours?
• 28:49
  Speaker 26: R Master could throw yours in prison, and mine could
• 28:53
  Speaker 26: slay you.
• 28:54
  Speaker 27: Both.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Picks up staff.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: I'll call him and his archers.
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  Speaker 11: Oh murder, Robert throats.
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  Speaker 1: Both run out. Left Tuck brings out Jack and Joan.
• 29:08
  Speaker 25: They are gone gone, Oh brother, oh, he says, Oh,
• 29:16
  Speaker 25: look and see.
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  Speaker 1: Enter on left. Robin Hood scarlet much alan Adale. Then
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a visa who rushes up to Jack and Joan, embraces
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: them and takes their hands.
• 29:28
  Speaker 12: Oh they are safe, both safe, robin Hood, we have
• 29:33
  Speaker 12: all escaped at last to you.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: You're all in safety.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Now takes Jock and Joan by the hand and gives
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: them to a Visa.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Here in the great wood. I am king. No man
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: shall hurt you. The bows of all my archers would
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: be bent in your defense. If you're called good Dame
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: used to look.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Sad, alas I have cause, prithee be a good cheer.
• 29:54
  Speaker 12: Woe is me?
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: We are lost.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Nay, never say why you are sad, seeing that your
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: son and daughter are in safety. Now dry our eyes
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: and be comforted.
• 30:05
  Speaker 12: It is for you. I weep, O brave, O noble,
• 30:09
  Speaker 12: O most valiant, robin Hood. They have seen little John
• 30:13
  Speaker 12: and discovered where you abide. The Baron of the Black
• 30:17
  Speaker 12: Castle desires to take your life. He is journeying to
• 30:20
  Speaker 12: the King to tell him where you are. He thinks
• 30:23
  Speaker 12: he will win honor of the King by giving the
• 30:25
  Speaker 12: outlaw robin Hood into his hands.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: And they will hunt you down. Master.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I will lead them a brave dance, I promise before
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: they catch me, A jacqu o Lanton dance o a
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: fendan forest.
• 30:37
  Speaker 12: The baron has sworn that if he should do nothing
• 30:40
  Speaker 12: else for a whole year, he will hunt you through
• 30:43
  Speaker 12: the land. He knows you lent the Good Knight the money,
• 30:46
  Speaker 12: and he hates you. He had bought the Knight's lands
• 30:50
  Speaker 12: of the false Sheriff. The Sheriff's wife did.
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: Tell me this.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I will die fighting with my merrimn.
• 30:56
  Speaker 12: If you die, we have no protector.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Jack and run up to robin Hood and stand one
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: on the other side of him.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: If you die, we have.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: No friend and we no leader. Captain, Prince of Archers.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: King of the good Greenwood.
• 31:17
  Speaker 8: A gentle should die, green.
• 31:28
  Speaker 23: Dress girl, Robinod should die good Angels.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Robin Hood goes out left, followed by the others in
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: a mournful procession. End of Act two, Act three of
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Robin Hood by Amice mac donnell. This is the LibriVox recording.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act three,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Scene one, some months later, the King's Palace. Two chairs
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: center and benches right and left of stage. Enter left Queen,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: her three ladies and Marian. Ladies sit on right hand bench.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Queen on right hand chair, Marian on a low chair
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: beside her left.
• 32:38
  Speaker 14: So, gentle Marian, you will leave us.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: Dear Queen, I only entreat your leave to go from
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: your court for a little space?
• 32:46
  Speaker 14: Are you not happy at our court? Spring is coming
• 32:48
  Speaker 14: and we shall have jous and mary feastings soon.
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: I thank your grace. But my father and I have
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: a journey which we must make about this season of
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: the year. Before we go, we must return and set
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: our affairs in readiness.
• 33:00
  Speaker 14: Do you go to some holy shrine, to Canterbury or
• 33:03
  Speaker 14: to Eli?
• 33:04
  Speaker 20: Nay?
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: My father has visited far distant shrines and brought back
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: boughs of palms such as the saints hold in their hands.
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: But this journey is to no fair church.
• 33:13
  Speaker 14: Where do you go then?
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: To visit one who helped us in adversity.
• 33:17
  Speaker 14: Well, God speed you on your way. We have rejoiced
• 33:20
  Speaker 14: to have you at our side. Drop up that seat
• 33:22
  Speaker 14: and unwind these threads for me.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Marian seats herself on left hand bench and draws threads.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Queen turns right to ladies.
• 33:31
  Speaker 14: Is there any one of all our trains? So gentle,
• 33:33
  Speaker 14: fair and good.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Points to Marian, then takes up her book and reads, first,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: lady tis second, lady.
• 33:40
  Speaker 15: Are weary to hear the praise which our good Queen
• 33:42
  Speaker 15: bestirs on this maiden?
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: Wearily?
• 33:45
  Speaker 16: She is but the daughter of a mean knight of
• 33:48
  Speaker 16: the West Country, living doubtless in some red hole castle
• 33:52
  Speaker 16: and mountains.
• 33:54
  Speaker 17: She and her father flont like peacock's now. But they
• 33:57
  Speaker 17: say it is only a few years ago that the
• 34:00
  Speaker 17: same night and his fair daughter were beggars. Beggars, yea,
• 34:07
  Speaker 17: beggars dressed in rags, their lands and castle pledged.
• 34:12
  Speaker 16: That is true, I warrant I heard it from one who.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Queen looks up and closes her book.
• 34:18
  Speaker 14: What's that? Are you whispering there amongst yourselves?
• 34:21
  Speaker 17: Idlers?
• 34:22
  Speaker 14: Set to your work? By Pentecost? That tapestry must be finished?
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Reads again, I.
• 34:27
  Speaker 15: Wish the queen would make that pad Marianna, finish.
• 34:30
  Speaker 16: It truly, look at my unhappy fingers. It will be
• 34:34
  Speaker 16: only bones by Pentecot.
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: Before Pentecost, my father would make this journey. Dear Queen, your.
• 34:40
  Speaker 14: Father did the king good service in the Welsh Wars,
• 34:43
  Speaker 14: in winter, snow, cold, hunger, were Sir Richard of the lee.
• 34:46
  Speaker 14: Ever foremost I rejoice he holds his lands in peace.
• 34:50
  Speaker 14: The king will not say your father nay, But here
• 34:52
  Speaker 14: you go. You shall sing to us. Marian a song
• 34:54
  Speaker 14: to Cherisatter's work.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Right willingly rises?
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: What shall it be, my Queen?
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  Speaker 14: What you will whenever songs comes to your lips? Two third, Lady,
• 35:04
  Speaker 14: here take my book.
• 35:06
  Speaker 15: I pray you seem not to offend my ears.
• 35:09
  Speaker 16: No loud, boisterous minstrelsy for me.
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  Speaker 8: I pray I'll do my best to please you.
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  Speaker 1: Comes forward and sings well.
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  Speaker 24: May the sweet listening all the I fain would be.
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  Speaker 28: Five way marry spring findies the green wood.
• 35:33
  Speaker 24: Tree, the wind it seems too fill. They boded my dreams.
• 35:42
  Speaker 24: I see lad with sunshine glittering.
• 35:48
  Speaker 28: G waving the green wood tree, fancying cridzonon.
• 35:56
  Speaker 8: Into the longest aunt taste. Say to me.
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  Speaker 28: One like a bit offy to ben agreed?
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  Speaker 1: Would King enters left with Sir Richard at the lee,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: and little John first, second, and third ladies jump up
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: the king King leaves for them to sit still.
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  Speaker 13: Rust gentle ladies, that was a sweet song you sang.
• 36:35
  Speaker 13: And now nightingale, you will fly away and leave the court.
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: So please you, grace, My father and I would make
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: this journey.
• 36:43
  Speaker 13: Yay, your father says, even thus tonight I owe you
• 36:48
  Speaker 13: for faithful service, and I will not fail to reward
• 36:51
  Speaker 13: you on the word of a king.
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: Since my fortunes mended, it has been my chief delight
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: to serve you, my liege.
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  Speaker 13: Oboon you ask shall be denied.
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  Speaker 7: I thank you. When I return, my sword is ready
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: at your bidding. Come, daughter, and you my trustee squire.
• 37:12
  Speaker 13: Your squire rendered good service in the wars. They say he.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Did come forward, turns left and pushes Little John forward
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: towards King.
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  Speaker 13: Men say you are a peerless archer.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: Please your grace near as good an archer as bold
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: robin Hood.
• 37:29
  Speaker 13: Ha ha ha robin Hood the outlaw the gallows.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: For such as he little John bows. You have no
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: need tonight.
• 37:40
  Speaker 13: This fellow of yours has a merry countenance.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: I thank your grace.
• 37:45
  Speaker 13: Make one Sarah turns to Queen. This fellow pleaseth me.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Yay, I can make a merry jest when it serves
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: me you are a waggish knave.
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: But peace leave justing now, farewell my King, and you,
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: my gracious queen.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Bows farewell, Knight, Marian and little John go out.
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: Left.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: King seats himself by Queen on left chair and put
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: some flowers into her hands. Messenger enters from left.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: My King.
• 38:18
  Speaker 18: Nils the Baron of the Black Castle comes on urgent
• 38:22
  Speaker 18: business and craves the hearing.
• 38:24
  Speaker 13: Immediately bring him into our presence.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Messenger goes out left. Queen.
• 38:29
  Speaker 14: Two ladies, you can stay here, but ply your needles.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Enter left. Baron of the Black Castle?
• 38:37
  Speaker 13: What will you? You have ridden in haste, it seems,
• 38:40
  Speaker 13: and are heated and weary with swift traveling.
• 38:43
  Speaker 10: I come on urgent business wherein your grace's safety is concerned.
• 38:48
  Speaker 10: I will deliver into your hands one who has long
• 38:51
  Speaker 10: defied your majesty.
• 38:53
  Speaker 13: Is it one of my Welsh rebels?
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: Not Welsh? A nearer rebel?
• 38:58
  Speaker 13: Sit down and tell me who you speak of.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Baron sits down on left hand bench for.
• 39:04
  Speaker 10: A whole year. I have hunted for this man, and
• 39:06
  Speaker 10: spend much gold, and ridden over fens and moors in snow,
• 39:10
  Speaker 10: wind and rain to find him and deliver him into
• 39:13
  Speaker 10: your hands.
• 39:14
  Speaker 13: You are much angered, Queen.
• 39:16
  Speaker 14: Aside, his eyes are furious, he trembles and can scarce
• 39:20
  Speaker 14: tell his tale for rage?
• 39:22
  Speaker 13: What man would you give into our hands?
• 39:25
  Speaker 10: That villain, cutthroat, lurker in thicket shadows? Robin Hood? Robin Hood, yay,
• 39:31
  Speaker 10: the outlaw robin Hood.
• 39:33
  Speaker 13: Verily he is an outlaw, for he has slain our deer.
• 39:37
  Speaker 10: Has he is the blackest villain in your land?
• 39:39
  Speaker 13: Methinks we have many.
• 39:41
  Speaker 10: But Robinhood excels them all in wickedness.
• 39:44
  Speaker 15: This preserves us.
• 39:46
  Speaker 13: Robin Hood has killed our deer and should be sternly
• 39:49
  Speaker 13: dealt with on that account. But what else has he done?
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Baron jumps up.
• 39:54
  Speaker 10: I can call witnesses, honest men can testify to what
• 39:57
  Speaker 10: he has done.
• 39:58
  Speaker 13: Bring them in, Come an come guy. What dost thou
• 40:02
  Speaker 13: know of robin Hood?
• 40:04
  Speaker 11: He's a very terrible villain.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Aside to Baron, that is right?
• 40:08
  Speaker 26: Is it not?
• 40:08
  Speaker 11: My lord?
• 40:09
  Speaker 10: Speak on knave?
• 40:10
  Speaker 11: Robin Hood lives in the woods.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: I know that speak on.
• 40:15
  Speaker 11: He is some ten feet high, so please your grace.
• 40:18
  Speaker 13: I care not for his stature. What does he do do?
• 40:22
  Speaker 11: He wears a gold crown and sits under the trees
• 40:24
  Speaker 11: and kills old gentle travelers who come by. And he
• 40:27
  Speaker 11: has sworn to slay the kink one day.
• 40:29
  Speaker 13: That touches me somewhat enough, thou canst go?
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Anthony stands back left. Anthony aside, Ti Baron was not
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: that well, said peace too.
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: King.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Here is another pushes forward guy.
• 40:43
  Speaker 10: He can tell much of Robin Hood?
• 40:45
  Speaker 13: Who art thou so please you?
• 40:48
  Speaker 25: I am a guy of the field by the windmill.
• 40:51
  Speaker 13: Guy of the field by the windmill. Tell thy tale?
• 40:54
  Speaker 13: When didst thou see robin Hood?
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Guy trembles ken huts speak.
• 41:01
  Speaker 26: I shall die if I do even think of what
• 41:04
  Speaker 26: I saw.
• 41:05
  Speaker 13: Go on, I command thee.
• 41:08
  Speaker 25: I did never see Robin Hood leastways. I came through
• 41:13
  Speaker 25: the forest once, having so please you, been many times
• 41:17
  Speaker 25: there well? Once I went. It was on a Friday
• 41:22
  Speaker 25: eight years ago, Come Martemis.
• 41:24
  Speaker 10: Tell thy tale faster?
• 41:27
  Speaker 25: Did I say Friday on my knees? I crave pardon?
• 41:31
  Speaker 25: I speak false? It was Tuesday?
• 41:35
  Speaker 10: Tell thy tale faster.
• 41:37
  Speaker 25: Yes, I can speak fast well.
• 41:39
  Speaker 26: As I say, I was in the forest on a Wednesday,
• 41:41
  Speaker 26: and as I drew near to the trees, I heard
• 41:43
  Speaker 26: a strange sound.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: First, second, and third ladies stopping their work.
• 41:48
  Speaker 25: Oh, verly, sweet ladies. It was all dark and nothing
• 41:54
  Speaker 25: could I see or hear. So I knew Robin Hood
• 41:57
  Speaker 25: must be near terrible.
• 42:00
  Speaker 26: I knew he would be in some ditch or thicket. So,
• 42:04
  Speaker 26: being a bold and hardy.
• 42:06
  Speaker 9: Man, what did you do, prah fellow?
• 42:09
  Speaker 25: I gathered my cloak round me, put my hand to
• 42:11
  Speaker 25: my ear, shut my eyes tight, and ran through the forest,
• 42:15
  Speaker 25: shouting and calling on the saints.
• 42:17
  Speaker 26: And then and then, oh it's the truth I speak
• 42:22
  Speaker 26: as I live on cold water.
• 42:25
  Speaker 25: Suddenly I struck something hard.
• 42:28
  Speaker 13: Oh didst thou hit thy head against a tree?
• 42:32
  Speaker 25: Against a tree?
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: No tree?
• 42:34
  Speaker 25: Indeed, it was that villain Robin Hood, who felled me
• 42:39
  Speaker 25: to the earth, and I fainted.
• 42:42
  Speaker 16: Ah me, How looks Robin Hood?
• 42:44
  Speaker 25: Oh he has horns, I think, two long arms, two legs.
• 42:51
  Speaker 17: How sensibly he speaks.
• 42:54
  Speaker 13: But thou wert lying fainting on the ground.
• 42:57
  Speaker 10: Yes, nay, thou worst senseless.
• 42:59
  Speaker 26: True, But I know he has horns and roars like
• 43:04
  Speaker 26: a lion. I lay on the earth, my king, like
• 43:09
  Speaker 26: one dead, Yes, sweet ladies, like one dead, stiff, cold, lifeless?
• 43:18
  Speaker 13: And what after that?
• 43:19
  Speaker 22: For us?
• 43:20
  Speaker 13: Thou art here? We may believe that Robin did not
• 43:23
  Speaker 13: utterly slay thee.
• 43:24
  Speaker 26: Oh afterwards, afterwards I got up and went out of
• 43:29
  Speaker 26: the forest.
• 43:31
  Speaker 13: Ha ha Oh, Robin Hood, you are a mighty monster
• 43:34
  Speaker 13: to frighten such brave men.
• 43:36
  Speaker 10: Robin Hood, you be caught and hanged.
• 43:38
  Speaker 13: Your grace hanged? Would that not be a mild punishment
• 43:42
  Speaker 13: for such a villain? Methinks before he dies, I would
• 43:45
  Speaker 13: fain see this Robin Hood.
• 43:48
  Speaker 10: See Robin Hood.
• 43:49
  Speaker 20: He has sworn to kill the king, yay, and he
• 43:53
  Speaker 20: will kill us, dread king. Do not make me your
• 43:57
  Speaker 20: guide to the forest. I cannot my head a second time.
• 44:02
  Speaker 20: Oh what I suffered riding there, good ladies, as I
• 44:05
  Speaker 20: lay stiff, cold and senseless.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: On the earth, alas poor man.
• 44:12
  Speaker 25: I was quite dead.
• 44:15
  Speaker 13: Peace, I tell thee I will come to the forest
• 44:19
  Speaker 13: and see Robin Hood. To baron, you shall take me
• 44:22
  Speaker 13: to the place where he hunts.
• 44:24
  Speaker 10: Where is it in Barnesdale and Sherwood Forest he is
• 44:27
  Speaker 10: oft found. But consider, my liege, the danger to yourself
• 44:32
  Speaker 10: to go into the woods where robin Hood and his
• 44:34
  Speaker 10: archers stalk up and down with bow in hand. Give me,
• 44:38
  Speaker 10: men and your warrant. I fear not in your service,
• 44:41
  Speaker 10: and let me go and slay him myself.
• 44:43
  Speaker 13: I am the king, and I alone do justice in
• 44:46
  Speaker 13: my land. I need not your sword, my bold baron,
• 44:49
  Speaker 13: to keep order. If Robinhood be all that you and
• 44:52
  Speaker 13: these brave men declare him to be, why no punishment
• 44:56
  Speaker 13: is too bad for him. But I will see him
• 44:58
  Speaker 13: with my own eyes. He must be a subtle rogue
• 45:01
  Speaker 13: to have frightened so many wise people out of their wits.
• 45:05
  Speaker 25: Indeed, I am a broken, stricken man.
• 45:10
  Speaker 13: We will go armed fully, but disguised as travelers. Prepare
• 45:14
  Speaker 13: disguises for us. Get you resset cloth, black hoods, such
• 45:18
  Speaker 13: as sober merchants wear upon their travels.
• 45:22
  Speaker 25: We will do your bidding.
• 45:25
  Speaker 13: Hasten to get ready our disguises rises. No one must
• 45:29
  Speaker 13: guess we are the king.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: I would fain go along with you, My lord King
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: sits down again beside her.
• 45:36
  Speaker 13: Nay, now, gentle lady, think you of the terrors you
• 45:40
  Speaker 13: have heard of robin Hood. He has horns, roars like
• 45:43
  Speaker 13: a lion.
• 45:44
  Speaker 14: Were he the dragon that Saint George didslay.
• 45:47
  Speaker 13: I have no fear of him, yet think the way
• 45:50
  Speaker 13: is hard, rough roads. The trees are roof moss for
• 45:54
  Speaker 13: a bed our table, the gnarled roots of an oak.
• 45:57
  Speaker 14: Queen rises, Tell me, did I fear to sojourn in
• 46:01
  Speaker 14: the lone castle of Caernivarn among the fierce Welsh? Was
• 46:05
  Speaker 14: I afraid to cross the seas and bide with you
• 46:07
  Speaker 14: in camp? While the battle with the heathen raised around me?
• 46:10
  Speaker 14: I trembled not at mountain savages nor saracens. And shall
• 46:13
  Speaker 14: I be afraid to come with you in your own forests,
• 46:15
  Speaker 14: even should we encounter the stoutest outlaw in your realm?
• 46:18
  Speaker 13: Bravely spoken, Oh, my Queen, I will.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Go with you, disguised sits down.
• 46:24
  Speaker 14: I will be dressed as a merchant's wife. My lady
• 46:27
  Speaker 14: shall come with me.
• 46:28
  Speaker 16: Ah nay, my veil will be torn in the thickets
• 46:31
  Speaker 16: weep for each brave kurtle, which to bramble's shelldyvower.
• 46:35
  Speaker 17: Oh the thought of the forest wolves, thorns.
• 46:40
  Speaker 25: Bears, cold heat, darkness, starvation.
• 46:46
  Speaker 17: Serpents, poisonous herbs.
• 46:49
  Speaker 25: With destruction, robin hood, I could weep.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: Dry your eyes, Queen. And three ladies rise and make
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: already our disguises.
• 47:01
  Speaker 14: You shall be attendant on the merchant's wife. You shall
• 47:04
  Speaker 14: be a prioress. You are attendant none. We will not
• 47:07
  Speaker 14: tarry long.
• 47:09
  Speaker 10: Then do your way. I have tried to serve you.
• 47:12
  Speaker 13: We will not forget your service. Eager servant. You shall
• 47:15
  Speaker 13: have your reward.
• 47:17
  Speaker 10: I want my vengeance. That is my reward.
• 47:20
  Speaker 13: Tomorrow is May day. We'll keep it in the forest.
• 47:24
  Speaker 13: Come must share.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Rain takes Queen's hand.
• 47:28
  Speaker 13: Well, hasten to the fearsome wood and judge the outlaw.
• 47:31
  Speaker 13: Robin Hood, King.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: And Queen go out together left, followed by ladies in waiting, Baron,
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Anthony and Guy. Scene two Mayday morning, a year from
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: beginning of play, under an oak and sherwood forest. Three
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: logs or benches center and right and left, treasure chest
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: and food on extreme right, jug and cups on extreme
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: left of stage. Enter left, Robin Hood scarlet much and
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: of these who carries garlands. Robin Hood stands center, scarlet
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: on his right, march and a visa on left.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: It is May morning. The laxing high oerhead. The sun
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: shines on the meadows, and now his beams creep into
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: the depths of the wood. Men, beasts and birds must
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: seek their food. Come, Scarlet, come much, let us away,
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: and bring some venison home for dinner. We'll dine at noon.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Heaven sends some rich traveler this way.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: You will make ready our food when we return.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Robin Hood, Scarlet and mutch go out left gladly?
• 48:35
  Speaker 12: Will I do so? This is the day of all
• 48:38
  Speaker 12: the year.
• 48:40
  Speaker 29: Either dim morning had dawned in the forest. We went
• 48:46
  Speaker 29: through the deep too, and brought home the May whole
• 48:51
  Speaker 29: month of gladness. Banish or sadness, crown with.
• 48:57
  Speaker 30: Thy beauty, thy own fee stool day maytime to honor.
• 49:04
  Speaker 30: We hang up our garlands on trees, and all fresh
• 49:09
  Speaker 30: streams that shine in the sun. White howthorne bringing with
• 49:15
  Speaker 30: birdwy singing, telling two al men.
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: My rain has be gone.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Avisa goes out left, enter left, first lady in waiting,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: Second lady in waiting, and guy who carries a bundle.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: They move across the stage and stand on the right
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: facing audience.
• 49:35
  Speaker 15: I'm fighting with hunger. It is more than two hours
• 49:38
  Speaker 15: since we tasted food.
• 49:39
  Speaker 16: My eyes are blind with weeping for my torn raiment.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: First lady starts, catches hold of guy's arm.
• 49:47
  Speaker 15: What is it? What frightens you?
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Second lady drawing nearer.
• 49:51
  Speaker 16: Yes, tell us, do you hear anything?
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: No?
• 49:56
  Speaker 15: Do you see what?
• 49:58
  Speaker 25: Well? Courage, what is that? It is tall and straight?
• 50:03
  Speaker 15: Caw it it is a tree.
• 50:05
  Speaker 25: Yet there's a sound. We are ended.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: First lady, guy, Second lady, move farther to right.
• 50:13
  Speaker 16: Fool. It is the King and Queen who come behind us.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Enter from left, King Queen, third Lady Anthony and Baron
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Anthony carries bundles. All are disguised. King stand center.
• 50:27
  Speaker 13: Here we are in the forest of Sherwood.
• 50:30
  Speaker 17: A mean and wretched place full of trees just drank
• 50:35
  Speaker 17: and green.
• 50:37
  Speaker 10: Now we are near the haunt of robin Hood. Any
• 50:40
  Speaker 10: moment he may.
• 50:41
  Speaker 13: Appear, Oh misery, there are plenty of trees to climb
• 50:45
  Speaker 13: for safety.
• 50:46
  Speaker 25: Alhas so many trees that I shall not know which
• 50:50
  Speaker 25: to jews.
• 50:52
  Speaker 13: I care not for robin Hood, but I would that
• 50:54
  Speaker 13: we could get some refreshment for the Queen.
• 50:57
  Speaker 14: Nay, travelers must not look to find their dinners cooked
• 50:59
  Speaker 14: on the books the bushes.
• 51:01
  Speaker 25: The bushes are.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Points right and pulls back. First and second lady towards
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: center of stage.
• 51:07
  Speaker 25: Something did stir in your hundred bush it is the robbers.
• 51:11
  Speaker 15: Hi un medelne mae help me to a hiding place.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: There are us, first lady, guy, second lady. Move quickly
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: behind King. Enter left, robin Hood, Scarlet march. King faces
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: robin Hood.
• 51:27
  Speaker 13: Who are you?
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: I am a robin Hood?
• 51:30
  Speaker 10: Oh that I might slay him where he stands?
• 51:33
  Speaker 15: Let me hard, oh thing to be dead.
• 51:37
  Speaker 13: We greet you, robin Hood?
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: And who are you?
• 51:40
  Speaker 13: Good as yourself? I am?
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: How?
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: Remember I am king?
• 51:43
  Speaker 13: Hey in the forest you are. Indeed, we are travelers,
• 51:47
  Speaker 13: but we are envoys of the king.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: We will treat you well if you are a messenger
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: of the king. Who is a better man than this sheriff.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: But remember how the blast of my horn. Artists come
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: with bent bows to do my bidding. A proud fellow, I.
• 52:01
  Speaker 13: Am nearly as proud as is robin Hood.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Scarlet moves toward the king.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: Try no jesting with us.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Caesar's King's arm.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Leave him alone.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Scarlet obeys and goes back to place behind robin Hood.
• 52:14
  Speaker 13: You rule your subjects well.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: As well as the King of England rules his ha ha.
• 52:20
  Speaker 13: You have more obedient subjects. None of your subjects are outlaws.
• 52:25
  Speaker 13: But come, we are hungry, and we command you to
• 52:28
  Speaker 13: give us meat.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Command it is not thus a Travelers speak to Robin Hood,
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: No that I can give meat hair or not as
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: I police.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, and take your purses if we like in
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: payment for the dinner.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Baron steps toward the king and says, aside, will you
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: endure their insolence?
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: No harm shall come to you. It is May day,
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: and so you shall all dine with us. The ladies
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: are weary, doubtless.
• 52:54
  Speaker 25: That less they are I am.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: You shall all dine here under this oak. Come, Scarlet,
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: bring the venison which Harisa has cooked for us.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Scarlet goes to write and fetches food, which he places
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: on ground in front center of stage. Tuck enters from left,
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: followed by eleanor Dale. They spread out food.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: Tuck, you have our wine.
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: All get the word for these Guy.
• 53:17
  Speaker 7: Travelers moves to.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Left of stage, from which he fetches wine. As he
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: passes Anthony and Guy, he says, you pale.
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: Lock kneed fellows.
• 53:28
  Speaker 11: He insults us.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Tuck sets down wine on ground beside food in center
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: of stage, and then goes to his place on right
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: between Much and Eleanordale.
• 53:37
  Speaker 13: Silence. He is our host.
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: Now draw an air all of us. Lady, will you
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: sit here?
• 53:43
  Speaker 14: Thanks Robin Hood for your courtesy.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Robin Hood handing Queen to seat on center log.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Never shall it be said that Robin Hood was lacking
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: in courtesy to any woman living. Be see today.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: Good Sir King sits down on center log beside the Queen.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: First lady sits down on right hand log.
• 54:00
  Speaker 15: This is well, methinks the wood is finer than I thought.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: Second lady sits on left hand log.
• 54:05
  Speaker 16: Truly, the bowers make a tolerable shelter.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Third lady sits down on left hand log, and the
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: moss is soft. Baron sits down on left log.
• 54:15
  Speaker 10: He is a crafty knave. Beware, will you not seize him?
• 54:20
  Speaker 13: I will dine first, betray not who I am on
• 54:23
  Speaker 13: your peril, points.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: To Robin, who sits on right hand log. By first lady,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: there is a king with no cares. There are pasties
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: of my own making. Entered Jock and Joan from left,
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: with a basket between them, which they hand ran to
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: all the wilding the lake. Entered left Eviza with food,
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: which she hands to Queen.
• 54:45
  Speaker 18: You will not.
• 54:46
  Speaker 12: Quarrel with the meat.
• 54:47
  Speaker 13: Sweethe baked nay indeed, good Dame. Moreover, all things taste
• 54:53
  Speaker 13: well under the trees, is not yours?
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: A jovial wife, the sorrowing all their cares lay down?
• 54:59
  Speaker 17: Where in the greenwood?
• 55:01
  Speaker 9: I do not hear the tigrants frown?
• 55:04
  Speaker 10: Where in the greenwood the hungry vows?
• 55:07
  Speaker 14: Is food are fed?
• 55:08
  Speaker 11: Where in the greenwood.
• 55:11
  Speaker 12: The weary find a quiet bed?
• 55:14
  Speaker 8: Where in the greenwood?
• 55:16
  Speaker 13: Ah me, I would fain, stay here, and I and I,
• 55:20
  Speaker 13: But it must not be robin Hood. It irks me
• 55:23
  Speaker 13: sore to come to the hour of reckoning. First, I
• 55:27
  Speaker 13: must make payment for this food we have eaten and
• 55:29
  Speaker 13: drunk well.
• 55:30
  Speaker 10: I trust that the food and drink is not poisoned.
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  Speaker 1: King rises in hands coin to robin Hood. In rising,
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  Speaker 1: the king's hood falls back a little from his face.
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  Speaker 13: Gentle host, take this gold piece for our entertainment, with
• 55:42
  Speaker 13: our thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Robinhood rises takes coin in his hand, looks at it,
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  Speaker 1: and then at the king.
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  Speaker 13: Why do you gaze first at me and then at
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  Speaker 13: the paltry coin in your hand?
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  Speaker 2: Because your hood has slipped back. That is why I stare.
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  Speaker 2: The countenance upon this gold piece is the king's and
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  Speaker 2: it is yours.
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  Speaker 1: Likewise, Nils will the King, fall on their knees.
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  Speaker 13: The King, the King, yay, I am the King.
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  Speaker 1: Robin Hood Baron springs up and rushes forward towards robin Hood.
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  Speaker 10: Robber, borcher, seize him. Now hang him upon the nearest tree.
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  Speaker 1: All rise from their knees. King pushes Baron back.
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  Speaker 13: Stand back. No man shall lay hands on him. Here
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  Speaker 13: we have drunk his wine and eat his meat, and
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  Speaker 13: you shall not touch him without my leave, though he
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  Speaker 13: be ten times in outlaw.
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  Speaker 1: Baron moves back left.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, wretched spite, you have slain my dear verily robbed
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  Speaker 13: rich abbots.
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  Speaker 2: I took their wealth to give the navy.
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  Speaker 13: You have defied my officers. I have you should die?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, robin Hood bows so bit.
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  Speaker 13: Yet, since you have shown us such kindness, we will
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  Speaker 13: spare your life on condition that you pay a fine.
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  Speaker 10: Oh let it be four hundred pounds.
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  Speaker 13: Be it so, four hundred pounds you pay before noon,
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  Speaker 13: and your life is saved. I swear this on the
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  Speaker 13: oath of a king whose word was never broken.
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  Speaker 1: Alas master King sits down again on center log beside.
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  Speaker 13: Queen, pay the four hundred pounds and you are safe.
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  Speaker 13: I have spoken. Why do you hesitate a lac a lac.
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  Speaker 20: Have we the gold?
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  Speaker 2: Little much alas I fear not.
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  Speaker 13: Play me no tricks.
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  Speaker 2: Look in your chest, Scarlet, fetch our tressured chest.
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  Speaker 1: Scarlet fetches chest from right, places it in front of king,
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  Speaker 1: opens it and looks in and holds up one coin.
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  Speaker 3: There is but one silver piece. My master gave the
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  Speaker 3: rest to a poor feeble man who came this way.
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  Speaker 1: eVisa steps toward king.
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  Speaker 8: He helped us.
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  Speaker 12: Must robin Hood die?
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  Speaker 13: The Las says he must, but I will pardon him
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  Speaker 13: if he pays the fine. Look in that chest again.
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  Speaker 1: Scarlet shakes chest and finally turns it upside down. It
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: is quite empty, drags it away and turns to robin Hood.
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  Speaker 3: Oh master, woe is me? Why stand you so unmoved?
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  Speaker 3: Did you not hear what the king has said?
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  Speaker 1: Goes back behind the right log. You will be slain.
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  Speaker 5: There is no mending the king's word.
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  Speaker 13: Yea, my word is given. If you can pay the fine,
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  Speaker 13: by noon you live. You smile, robin Hood, you have
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  Speaker 13: treasure hidden?
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  Speaker 2: I warrant nay, I swear I have not. My chest
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  Speaker 2: and pass are empty as winter husks.
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  Speaker 13: Then why do you look so proudly?
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  Speaker 2: I have a friend my king, a valorous knight who
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: borrowed four hundred pounds of me, and he promised to
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  Speaker 2: repay me beneath this very oak at noon upon May
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  Speaker 2: day tis neigh the hour. He will come and I
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  Speaker 2: shall have the money.
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  Speaker 10: Surely, now that is a marvelous tale. The knight come
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  Speaker 10: back to pay a cut throat in the forest.
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  Speaker 4: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: Moreover, it is just unknoon looks from side to side.
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  Speaker 11: I see no night.
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  Speaker 2: It is not yet high noon. I tell you he
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  Speaker 2: will come.
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  Speaker 10: I tell you he will not.
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  Speaker 1: King picks up our glass.
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  Speaker 13: I will take the hourglass in my hand and watch.
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  Speaker 13: If the sand run out before the night comes, I
• 59:06
  Speaker 13: must deliver you to justice. But if your debtor.
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  Speaker 1: Comes with the money, looks at Baron, I.
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  Speaker 13: Will fling him in the deepest dungeon. Who lays a
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  Speaker 13: hand on robin Hood.
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  Speaker 1: Queen looks anxiously at our glass in the King's hand,
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  Speaker 1: all as the stands run fast, paratscha.
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  Speaker 10: I think your knight has forgot to look in his calendar.
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  Speaker 2: He will come. I have no fair. Moreover, his fair
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: daughter promised she would return and be on my queen.
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  Speaker 11: Your may queen, Now you may have leave to hung me.
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  Speaker 11: If that be true, I speak truly see you. I
• 59:41
  Speaker 11: will stand there and watch Scarlet go and look up
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  Speaker 11: towards the ford and call to me. If the Knight
• 59:46
  Speaker 11: and the lady come.
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  Speaker 3: I can scarce see for tears.
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  Speaker 2: I think they will not fail me much.
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  Speaker 1: Peeps at our glass, master, it is near on the hour.
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  Speaker 12: My heart sinks.
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  Speaker 1: Rob Hood looks round to them.
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  Speaker 2: Have couraged good people.
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  Speaker 1: Alas, alas, alas.
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  Speaker 2: Surely they will not fail me.
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  Speaker 1: Turns front.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, time stands still.
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  Speaker 1: I will hide my face, hides her face. All robin
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  Speaker 1: Hood's people hide their faces. Robin Hood triumphantly turns round.
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  Speaker 2: Behold, they come, they come, they come.
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  Speaker 10: He has escaped me.
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  Speaker 11: Oh bitterness, our chance is bust.
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  Speaker 1: Enter from left Knight and Marian, followed by little John.
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  Speaker 1: Knight carries bag of gold.
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  Speaker 7: Hale, Brave robin Hood, here is your money.
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  Speaker 1: Doubled gives money to robin Hood.
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  Speaker 8: Hale, Oh hale.
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  Speaker 1: Knight starts back.
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  Speaker 7: Seeing the king, the king here the queen.
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  Speaker 1: Bows low King rises.
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  Speaker 13: How Sir Richard at the lee is robin Hood's debtor.
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  Speaker 25: In my need.
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  Speaker 7: He lent me four hundred pounds to redeem my lands
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 7: when we were.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 8: In great extremity, he helped us.
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  Speaker 1: Robin Hood walks right and puts money into King's hands,
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  Speaker 1: kneeling as he does so. King to robin.
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  Speaker 13: Hood, you prince of robbers, robin Hood.
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  Speaker 1: Robin moves to write of King tonight.
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  Speaker 13: I said he should not die if he could pay his.
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  Speaker 7: Fine my lead. You will forgive him.
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  Speaker 1: Marian steps toward King or pardon him.
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  Speaker 8: My King, dear Queen, beg for him.
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  Speaker 14: I would fain do so.
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  Speaker 13: Did you promise to be robin Hood's may Queen?
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  Speaker 8: I did, I said I would.
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  Speaker 13: Then you must keep your promise, fair maiden.
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  Speaker 8: It is my command, Oh gladly I obey.
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  Speaker 13: You shall have your money. Robin spend some of it
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 13: on feasting hungry travelers gives.
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  Speaker 1: Money to robin Hood. Robin Hood bows low.
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  Speaker 2: I thank you, gracious King.
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  Speaker 8: And you'll forgive him for evermore.
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  Speaker 13: Since you are his maid, Marian, I must part in robin.
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  Speaker 31: Hood night to Baron, twas you would fain have brought
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 31: my lends from the falls sheriff before the hour when
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 31: they were his by right King sternly to Baron.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 13: Then you and the sheriff shall pay the price of
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 13: your ill deeds a year I banish you go, you
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 13: and your hire lanes.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: Hence Barren goes out left, followed by Anthony and Guy.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 14: So justice shall be done. But now as it is
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 14: may day, let us be merry.
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  Speaker 13: Robin laid off the dance with your may Queen.
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  Speaker 1: Music, strike up Mary and takes robin Hood's hand.
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  Speaker 8: Till every glade in this wide wood echo the name
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  Speaker 8: of robin Hood.
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  Speaker 27: The winter is passed beneath the smiles in earth, Oh hail,
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  Speaker 27: and we have no care.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go out in procession, King and Queen, followed by
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: night Ladies in waiting, Marian with robin Hood, Little John
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: Scarlet match Allan Adale, Tuck, eVisa, Jack and Joan.
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  Speaker 3: Epilogue, Farewell, our little pageants are yet ere we part
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  Speaker 3: just one word more.
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  Speaker 18: Now.
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  Speaker 3: If you love the gay green wood, think kindly on
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: our play. And if you love brave robin Hood, come
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: back another day.
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  Speaker 1: End of Act three. End of robin Hood by Alice
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  Speaker 1: McDonald