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005 - Robin Hood And The Sorrowful Knight · Story of Robin Hood

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  Speaker 1: Chapter five of the Story of robin Hood. This is
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  Speaker 1: The Story of robin Hood by Bertha Evangeline Bush, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: five Robin Hood in the sorrowful night, we have had
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  Speaker 1: no guests for a long time, said robin Hood. One day,
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  Speaker 1: let us go and look for some little john. You
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  Speaker 1: go to the east, and I will go to the west,
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  Speaker 1: and we will see if we do not find passing
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  Speaker 1: a greedy noble or fat churchman who carries too much
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  Speaker 1: of this world's goods with him and needs to be
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  Speaker 1: relieved for the good of the poor. Now, when robin
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  Speaker 1: Hood and his men robbed a man, they never molested
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  Speaker 1: any but the rich, who had made their wealth by
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  Speaker 1: grinding down the poor. They brought him into the forest
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  Speaker 1: and made a feast for him. Then after he had feasted,
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  Speaker 1: they told him he must pay his reckoning, And they
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  Speaker 1: took his goods or gold that he carried, and divided
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  Speaker 1: these into three piles. One third they gave back to him,
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  Speaker 1: one third they kept for themselves, and the other third
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  Speaker 1: they distributed to the poor. The rich and grasping stuttered
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  Speaker 1: at the very mention of robin Hood's feasts, but the
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  Speaker 1: poor breathed blessings on his name whenever they thought of him.
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  Speaker 1: So Little John in his part of the band went
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  Speaker 1: to the east, and they were lucky, for they brought
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  Speaker 1: in the rich Bishop of Hereford with five sumpter mules
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  Speaker 1: loaded with goods. But robin Hood in his half found
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  Speaker 1: only a sorrowful knight, who sighed as he rode along,
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  Speaker 1: and seemed too sad to notice anything. Robin Hood laid
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  Speaker 1: his hand on his bridle, stopping his horse hold. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I would speak with you now. Who are you who
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  Speaker 1: would stop a peaceful traveler on the King's highway, asked
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  Speaker 1: the Knight. Some call me an honest man, and some
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  Speaker 1: call me a robber, answered robin Hood. At any rate,
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  Speaker 1: I and my men have an inn in the forest
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  Speaker 1: where we want you to stop and feast. But we
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  Speaker 1: let you know that we count upon our guests paying
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  Speaker 1: the reckoning. I take your meaning, answered the Knight, But
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  Speaker 1: I am no guest for you, for I have no money. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: I am in great sorrow by reason of this very thing,
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  Speaker 1: having great need of money, to save the life of
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  Speaker 1: my son, I mortgaged my estate to the prior of Emmet,
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  Speaker 1: And though I could raise the money if he would
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  Speaker 1: give me more time, he will not give me a day,
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  Speaker 1: but means to seize the estate and turn me out
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  Speaker 1: a beggar. How much money did you borrow of him,
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  Speaker 1: asked robin Hood. Only four hundred pounds. The estate is
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  Speaker 1: worth many times that, but he will show no mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Have you no friends who could lend you the money,
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  Speaker 1: asked robin Hood, alas no, answered the knight. When I
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  Speaker 1: was fortunate, I had many friends who crowded around me,
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  Speaker 1: But now that I have come to trouble, they all
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  Speaker 1: have deserted me. Well, the men who are in trouble
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  Speaker 1: always have friends in Sherwood Forest, answered robin Hood. Come
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  Speaker 1: with me as a free guest, and we will find
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  Speaker 1: a way to help you. So they went on until
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  Speaker 1: they came to the Great Tree, where Friar Tuck and
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  Speaker 1: half a dozen others were preparing the feast around a
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  Speaker 1: huge fire. And there, in the light of the flames
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  Speaker 1: sat the Bishop of Hereford under guard with his sumpter mules,
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  Speaker 1: with their loaded packs tied to the trees around. Have mercy,
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  Speaker 1: he whined, But robin Hood answered sternly, what mercy have
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  Speaker 1: you ever shown to the poor? Men? Open his packs?
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  Speaker 1: So they opened the packs, which were full of rich goods,
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  Speaker 1: and divided them up into three parts. Beside the packs
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  Speaker 1: of goods, there was a box that held fifteen hundred
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  Speaker 1: pounds in gold. Robin Hood took up the portion divided
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  Speaker 1: out for the poor and gave it to the sorrowful Knight.
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  Speaker 1: Since the churchmen have despoiled you, the churchmen shall help you.
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  Speaker 1: He said. Oh, I thank you, cried the Knight, his
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  Speaker 1: sorrowful face lading up for the first time that day.
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  Speaker 1: But I will not take it as a gift, but
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  Speaker 1: as a loan. I will pay it back to the
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  Speaker 1: Bishop or to you. The Bishop nodded and opened his
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  Speaker 1: mouth to say that is well, but robin Hood interrupted
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  Speaker 1: him shortly. Pay it to me, he said, I will
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  Speaker 1: help the poor with it. The bishop would but crowd
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  Speaker 1: it into his own coffers and use it to gain
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  Speaker 1: more money. So the Knight, who had been so sorrowful, departed,
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  Speaker 1: with all his troubles cleared away. Sorely disappointed was the
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  Speaker 1: Prior of Emmett, for he had made sure by cheating
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  Speaker 1: and craft, that the poor knight who had fallen into
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  Speaker 1: his clutches, could not get the money to redeem his
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  Speaker 1: lands anywhere. And he counted them already in his grasp,
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  Speaker 1: but he had to give them up. And that is
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  Speaker 1: a story too, but we have not room to tell
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  Speaker 1: it here. End of Chapter five,