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22 - Robin Hood by J Walker McSpadden · Robin Hood

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  Speaker 1: How King Richard came to Sherwood Forest. King Richard, hearing
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  Speaker 1: of the pranks of Robin Hood and his men, he
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  Speaker 1: much admired and more desired to see both him and them.
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  Speaker 1: Then Robin takes a can of ale. Come let us
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  Speaker 1: now begin, and every man shall have his can. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a health unto the King, Friar Tuck had nursed Little
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  Speaker 1: John's wounded knee so skillfully that it was now healed
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  Speaker 1: in sooth. The last part of the nursing depended more
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  Speaker 1: upon strength than skill, for it consisted chiefly of holding
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  Speaker 1: down the patient by main force to his cot Little
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  Speaker 1: John had felt so well that he had insisted upon
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  Speaker 1: getting up before the wound was healed, and he would
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  Speaker 1: have done so if the Friar had not piled some
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  Speaker 1: holy books upon his legs and sat upon his stomach.
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  Speaker 1: Under this vigorous treatment, little John was constrained to lie
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  Speaker 1: quiet until the Friar gave him leave to get up.
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  Speaker 1: At last he had the leave, and he and the
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  Speaker 1: Friar went forth to join the rest of the band,
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  Speaker 1: who were right glass to see them. You may be sure.
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  Speaker 1: They sat around a big fire for twas a chilly
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  Speaker 1: evening and they feasted and made merry in great content.
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  Speaker 1: A cold rain set in later, but the Friar wended
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  Speaker 1: his way back nave less to his little hermitage. There
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  Speaker 1: he made himself a cheerful blaze, and changed his dripping robe,
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  Speaker 1: and had sat himself down with a sigh of satisfaction
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  Speaker 1: before a tankard of hot mulled wine and a pasty,
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  Speaker 1: when suddenly a voice was heard on the outside, demanding ambition.
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  Speaker 1: His kennel of dogs set up furious uproar on the
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  Speaker 1: instant by way of proving the fact of a stranger's presence.
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  Speaker 1: Now by, Saint Peter growled the friar, who comes here
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  Speaker 1: at this unseemly hour? Does he take this for a hostelry?
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  Speaker 1: Move on, friend, else my mulled wine will get cold,
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  Speaker 1: So saying, he put the tankard to his lips, when
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  Speaker 1: a thundering rap sounded upon the door panel, making it
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  Speaker 1: to quiver and causing Tuck almost to drop his tankard,
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  Speaker 1: while an angry voice shouted, Ho within there open, I
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  Speaker 1: say go your way in peace, roared back the friar.
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  Speaker 1: I can do nothing for you, tis but a few
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  Speaker 1: miles to game. Well, if you know the road. But
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  Speaker 1: I do not know the road, and if I did,
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  Speaker 1: I would not budge another foot. Tis wet without and
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  Speaker 1: dry within, so open without further parley a moraine, seize
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  Speaker 1: you for disturbing A holy man in his prayers, muttered
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  Speaker 1: Tuck savagely. Knave less, he was fain to unbar the
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  Speaker 1: door in order to keep it from being battered down. Then,
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  Speaker 1: lighting a torch at his fire and whistling for one
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  Speaker 1: of his dogs, he strode forth to see who his
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  Speaker 1: visitor might be. The figure of a tall knight clad
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  Speaker 1: in a black coat of mail with plumed helmets stood
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  Speaker 1: before him. By his side stood his horse, also caparisoned
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  Speaker 1: in rich armor. Have you no supper, brother, asked the
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  Speaker 1: black knight curly, I must beg of you a bed
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  Speaker 1: and a bit of roof for this night, and fain
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  Speaker 1: would refresh my body. Ere I sleep. I have no
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  Speaker 1: room that even your steed would deign to accept, sir,
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  Speaker 1: and not say the crust of bread and pitcher of water.
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  Speaker 1: I faith I can smell better fare than that, brother,
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  Speaker 1: and must even force my company upon you, though I
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  Speaker 1: shall recompense it for gold in the name of the church.
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  Speaker 1: As for my horse, let him but be blanketed and
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  Speaker 1: put on the sheltered side of the house. And without
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  Speaker 1: further parley, the Knight boldly strode past Tuck and his
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  Speaker 1: dog and entered the hermitage. Something about his masterful air
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  Speaker 1: pleased Tuck, in spite of his churlishness. Sit you down,
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  Speaker 1: sir Knight, quoth he, and I will fasten up your
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  Speaker 1: steed and find him somewhat in the shape of grain.
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  Speaker 1: Half also of my bed and board is yours, this knight.
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  Speaker 1: But we shall see later who is the better man
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  Speaker 1: and is to give the orders? With all my soul,
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  Speaker 1: said the knight, laughing, I can pay my keeping in
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  Speaker 1: blows or gold, as you prefer. The friar presently returned
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  Speaker 1: and drew up a small table near the fire. Now,
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  Speaker 1: sir Knight, quoth he, put off your sword and helm,
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  Speaker 1: and such their war gear as it pleases you, and
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  Speaker 1: help me lay this table, for I am passing hungry.
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  Speaker 1: The Knight did as he was told, and put aside
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  Speaker 1: the visor which had hid his face. He was a
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  Speaker 1: bronzed and bearded man with blue eyes and hair shot
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  Speaker 1: with gold, haughty but handsome with awe. Then once again
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  Speaker 1: the priest sat him down to his pasty and mulled
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  Speaker 1: wine right hopefully, He spoke his grace with some haste,
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  Speaker 1: and was surprised to hear his guests respond fittingly in
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  Speaker 1: the Latin tongue. Then they attacked the wine and pasty valiantly,
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  Speaker 1: and the Black Knight made good his word of being
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  Speaker 1: in need of refreshment. Tuck looked ruefully at the rapidly
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  Speaker 1: disappearing food, but came to grudge it not by reason
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  Speaker 1: of the stories with which his guest enlivened the meal.
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  Speaker 1: The wine and warmth of the room had cheered them both,
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  Speaker 1: and they were soon laughing uproariously as the best of
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  Speaker 1: comrades in the world. The Black Knight, it seemed, had
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  Speaker 1: traveled everywhere, he had been on crusades, had fought the
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  Speaker 1: courteous Saladin, had been in prison and off in peril.
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  Speaker 1: But now he spoke of it lightly, and laughed it off,
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  Speaker 1: and made himself so friendly that Friar Tuck was like
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  Speaker 1: to choke with merriment. So passed the time till late,
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  Speaker 1: and the two fell asleep together, one on each side
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  Speaker 1: of the table, which had been cleared to the platters.
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  Speaker 1: In the morning, Friar Tuck awoke, disposed to be surly,
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  Speaker 1: but was speedily mullified by the sight of the Black Knight,
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  Speaker 1: who had already risen gay as a lark, washed his
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  Speaker 1: face and hands, and was now stirring a hot gruel
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  Speaker 1: over the fire. By my faith, I make a sorry host,
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  Speaker 1: cried Tuck, springing to his feet, and later, as they
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  Speaker 1: sat at breakfast, he added, I want not your gold
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  Speaker 1: of which you spoke last night, but instead I will
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  Speaker 1: do what I can to speed you on your way.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever you wish to depart. Then tell me, said the Knight,
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  Speaker 1: how I may find Robin Hood, the outlaw, For I
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  Speaker 1: have a message to him from the King. All day
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  Speaker 1: yesterday I sought him, but found him not Friar Tuck
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  Speaker 1: lifted up his hands in holy horror. I am a
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  Speaker 1: lover of peace, Sir Knight, and do not consort with
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  Speaker 1: Robin's bold fellows. Nay, I think no harm of master Hood,
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  Speaker 1: said the Knight, But much I yearned to have speed
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  Speaker 1: with him in mine own person. If that be all,
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  Speaker 1: mayhap I can guide you to his haunts, said Tuck,
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  Speaker 1: who foresaw in this night a possible gold bag for Robin.
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  Speaker 1: In sooth, I could not well live in these woods
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  Speaker 1: without hearing somewhat of the outlaws. But matters of religion
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  Speaker 1: are my chief joy and occupation. I will go with you, brother,
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  Speaker 1: said the black Knight. So without more ado, they went
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  Speaker 1: their way into the forest, the night riding upon his charger,
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  Speaker 1: and Tuck pacing along demurely by his side. The day
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  Speaker 1: had dawned clear and bright, and now, with the sun
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  Speaker 1: a good three hours high, a sweet autumn fragrance was
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  Speaker 1: in the air. The wind had just the touch of
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  Speaker 1: coolness in it, which sets the hunter's blood to tingling,
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  Speaker 1: and every creature of nature seemed bounding with joyous life.
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  Speaker 1: The knight sniffed the fresh air in delight by my paladome,
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  Speaker 1: quoth he. But the good greenwood is the best place
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  Speaker 1: to live in. After all, what court or capital can
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  Speaker 1: equal this for full blooded men, none of this earth,
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  Speaker 1: replied Tuck, smilingly, and once more his heart warmed toward
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  Speaker 1: the courteous stranger. They had not proceeded more than three
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  Speaker 1: or four miles along the way from Fountain Abbey to Barnsdale,
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  Speaker 1: when of a sudden the bushes just ahead of them parted,
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  Speaker 1: and a well knit man with curling brown hair stepped
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  Speaker 1: into the road and laid his hand upon the Knight's bridle.
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  Speaker 1: It was Robin Hood. He had seen Friar Tuck a
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  Speaker 1: little way back, and shrewdly suspected his plan. Tuck, however,
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  Speaker 1: feigned not to know him at all. Hold, cried Robin.
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  Speaker 1: I am in charge of the highway this day and
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  Speaker 1: must exact an accounting from all passers by. Who is
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  Speaker 1: it bids me, Hold asked the Knight quietly. I am
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  Speaker 1: not in the habit of yielding to one man. Then
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  Speaker 1: here are others to keep me company, said Robin, clapping
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  Speaker 1: his hands, and instantly a half score other stalwart fellows
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  Speaker 1: came out of the bushes and stood beside him. We
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  Speaker 1: be yeomen of the forest, sir, Knight, continued Robin, and
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  Speaker 1: live under the greenwood tree. We have no means of
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  Speaker 1: support thanks to the tyranny of our overlords, other than
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  Speaker 1: the aid which fat churchmen and goodly knights like yourselves
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  Speaker 1: can give. And as ye have churches and rents both
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  Speaker 1: and gold in great plenty, we beseech ye for Saint
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  Speaker 1: charity to give us some of your spending. I am
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  Speaker 1: but a poor monk, good Sir, said Friar tuck in
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  Speaker 1: a whining voice, and am on my way to the
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  Speaker 1: shrine of Saint Dunstan. If your worshipfulness will permit tarry
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  Speaker 1: a space with us, answered Robin, biting back a smile,
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  Speaker 1: and we will speed you on your way. The Black
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  Speaker 1: Knight now spoke again. But we are messengers of the king,
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  Speaker 1: quoth he his majesty himself tarries here and would have
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  Speaker 1: speech with Robin Hood. God save the King, said Robin,
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  Speaker 1: doffing his cap loyally, and all that wish him well.
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  Speaker 1: I am Robin Hood, But I say, cursed be the
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  Speaker 1: man who denies our liege King's sovereignty. Have a care,
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  Speaker 1: said the Knight, or you shall curse yourself. Nay, not so,
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  Speaker 1: replied Robin curtly. The King has no more devoted subject
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  Speaker 1: than I, nor have I despoiled aught of his Save
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  Speaker 1: mayhap a few dear from my hunger. My chief war
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  Speaker 1: is against the clergy and barons of the land, who
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  Speaker 1: bear down upon the poor. But I am glad, he continued,
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  Speaker 1: that I have met you here, and before we end,
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  Speaker 1: you shall be my friend and taste of our greenwood cheer.
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  Speaker 1: But what is the reckoning, asked the Knight, for I
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  Speaker 1: am told that some of your feasts are costly. Nay,
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  Speaker 1: responded Robin, waving his hands. You are from the king, nathless.
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  Speaker 1: How much money is in your purse? I have no
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  Speaker 1: more than forty gold pieces, seeing that I have lain
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  Speaker 1: a fortnight at Nottingham with the King, and have spent
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  Speaker 1: some goodly amounts upon other lordings, replied the Knight. Robin
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  Speaker 1: took the forty pounds and gravely counted it. One half
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  Speaker 1: he gave to his men and bade them drink the
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  Speaker 1: King's health. With the other half he handed back to
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  Speaker 1: the Knight. Sir, he said, courteously, have this for your spending.
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  Speaker 1: If you lie with kings and lordings over much, you
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  Speaker 1: are like to need it, Gray Mercy, replied the other, smiling,
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  Speaker 1: and now lead us on to your greenwood hostelry. So
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  Speaker 1: Robin went on the one side of the Knight's steed,
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  Speaker 1: and fire Tuck on the other, and the men went
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  Speaker 1: before and behind till they came to the open glade
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  Speaker 1: before the caves of Barnsdale. Then Robin drew forth his
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  Speaker 1: bugle and winded the three signal blasts of the band.
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  Speaker 1: Soon there came a company of yeomen with its leader,
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  Speaker 1: and another, and a third and a fourth, till there
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  Speaker 1: were seven score yeomen in sight. All were dressed in
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  Speaker 1: new livery of Lincoln green, and carried new bows in
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  Speaker 1: their hands, and bright short swords at their belts. And
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  Speaker 1: every man bent his knee to Robin hood Ere, taking
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  Speaker 1: his place before the board, which was already set. A handsome,
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  Speaker 1: dark haired page stood at Robin's right hand to pour
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  Speaker 1: his wine and that of the knightly guest. While the
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  Speaker 1: knight marveled much at all he saw, and said within himself,
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  Speaker 1: these men of robin Hoods give him more obedience than
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  Speaker 1: my fellows give to me. At the signal from Robin,
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  Speaker 1: the dinner began. There was venison and fowl, and fish,
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  Speaker 1: and wheaten, cake, and ale and red wine in great plenty,
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  Speaker 1: and twas a goodly sight to see the smiles upon
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  Speaker 1: the hungry yeoman's faces. First they listened to an unctuous
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  Speaker 1: grace from Friar Tuck, and then Robin lifted high a
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  Speaker 1: tankard of ale. Come let us now begin, quoth he,
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  Speaker 1: and every man shall have his can in honor of
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  Speaker 1: our guest, who comes with royal word. Here's a health
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  Speaker 1: unto the king. The guest responded heartily to this toast,
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  Speaker 1: and round about the board it went, the men cheering
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  Speaker 1: noisily for King Richard. After the feast was over, Robin
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  Speaker 1: turned to his guest and said, now you shall see
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  Speaker 1: what life we lead, so that you may report faithfully,
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  Speaker 1: for good or bad unto the King. So at a
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  Speaker 1: signal from him, the men rose up and smartly bent
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  Speaker 1: their bows for practice, while the Knight was greatly astonished
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  Speaker 1: at the smallness of their targets. A wand was set
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  Speaker 1: up far down the glade, and thereon was bounced a
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  Speaker 1: garland of roses. Whosoever failed to speed his shaft through
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  Speaker 1: the garland without knocking it off the wand was to
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  Speaker 1: submit to a buffet from the hand of Friar Tuck.
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  Speaker 1: Ho Ho cried the Knight, as his late traveling companion
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  Speaker 1: rose up and bared his brawny arm, ready for service.
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  Speaker 1: So you, my friend, are Friar Tuck. I have not
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  Speaker 1: gainsaid it replied Tuck, growling at having betrayed himself. But
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  Speaker 1: chastisement is a rule of the Church, and I am
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  Speaker 1: seeking the good of these stray sheep. The Knight said
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  Speaker 1: no more, though his eyes twinkled, and the shooting began.
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  Speaker 1: David of Doncaster shot first and landed safely through the
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  Speaker 1: rose garland. Then came Allan a Dale, and Little John,
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  Speaker 1: and Stuteley, and Scarlet, and many of the rest. While
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  Speaker 1: the Knight held his breath from very amazement. Each fellow
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  Speaker 1: shot truly through the garland, until Middle, the tinker, not
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  Speaker 1: to be outdone, stepped up for a trial. But alas,
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  Speaker 1: while he made a fair shot for a townsman, the
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  Speaker 1: arrow never came within a hand breadth of the outer
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  Speaker 1: rim of the garland. Come hither, fellow, said Little John, coaxingly.
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  Speaker 1: The priest would bless thee with his open hand. Then,
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  Speaker 1: because Middle made a wry face as though he had
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  Speaker 1: already received the buffet, and loitered in his steps, Arthur
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  Speaker 1: a Bland and Will Stuteley seized him by the arms
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  Speaker 1: and stood him before the fire. Tuck's big arm flashed
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  Speaker 1: through the air woof and stopped suddenly against the Tinker's ear.
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  Speaker 1: While Middle himself went rolling over and over in the grass,
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  Speaker 1: he was stopped by a small bush, and up he sat,
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  Speaker 1: thrusting his head through it, rubbing his ear and blinking
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  Speaker 1: up at the sky as though the stars had fallen
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  Speaker 1: and struck him. The yeoman roared with merriment, and as
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  Speaker 1: for the night, he laughed till the tears came out
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  Speaker 1: of his blue eyes and rolled down his face. After
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  Speaker 1: Middle's mishap, others of the band seemed to lose their
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  Speaker 1: balance and fared in the same fashion. The garland would
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  Speaker 1: topple over in a most impish way at every breath,
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  Speaker 1: though the arrows went through it. So Middle gan to
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  Speaker 1: feel better when he saw this one and that one
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  Speaker 1: tumbling on the sward. At last came Robin's turn. He
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  Speaker 1: shot carefully, but his ill luck would have it. The
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  Speaker 1: shaft was ill feathered and swerve sideways, so that it
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  Speaker 1: missed the garland by full three fingers. Then a great
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  Speaker 1: roar went up from the whole company, for twas rare
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  Speaker 1: that they saw their leader miss his mark. Robin flung
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  Speaker 1: his bow upon the ground from very vexation. A moraine
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  Speaker 1: take it, quoth he. The arrow was sadly winged. I
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  Speaker 1: felt the poor feather upon it as it left my fingers. Then, suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: seizing his bull again, he sped three shafts as fast
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  Speaker 1: as he could send them, and every one went clean
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  Speaker 1: through the garland by Saint George, muttered the Knight. Never
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  Speaker 1: before saw I such shooting in all Christendom. The band
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  Speaker 1: cheered heartily at these last shots. But Will Scarlett came
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  Speaker 1: up bravely to Robin, pretty shooting master, quoth he, But
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  Speaker 1: twill not save you from paying for the bad arrow.
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  Speaker 1: So walk up and take your medicine. Nay, that may
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  Speaker 1: not be protested. Robin, the good Friar belongs to my
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  Speaker 1: company and has no authority to lift hands against me.
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  Speaker 1: But you, Sir Knight, stand as it were for the King.
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  Speaker 1: I pray you serve out my blow. Not so, said
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  Speaker 1: Friar Tuck, my son, you forget. I stand for the Church,
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  Speaker 1: which is greater even than the King. Not in merry England,
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  Speaker 1: said the Knight in a deep voice. Then, rising to
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  Speaker 1: his feet, he added, I stand ready to serve you,
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  Speaker 1: Master Hood. Now out upon ye for an upstart Knight,
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  Speaker 1: cried Friar Tuck. I told you last night, sir Ah,
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  Speaker 1: that we should yet see who was the better man.
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  Speaker 1: So we will even prove it now, and thus sell
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  Speaker 1: who is to pay Robin hood good? Said Robin, for
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  Speaker 1: I want not to start a dispute between church and
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  Speaker 1: state good, also, said the knight. Tis an easy way
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  Speaker 1: to end prattling. Come, friar, strike an, ye dare, I
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  Speaker 1: will give you first blow. You have the advantage of
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  Speaker 1: an iron pot on your head and gloves on your hands,
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  Speaker 1: said the friar. But have at ye down, ye shall
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  Speaker 1: go if you were Goliath of Gath. Once more, the
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  Speaker 1: priest's brawny arm flashed through the air and struck with
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  Speaker 1: a wolf. But to the amazement of all, the Knight
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  Speaker 1: did not budge from his tracks, though the upper half
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  Speaker 1: of his body swer slightly to ease the force of
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  Speaker 1: the blow. A loud shout burst from the yeoman at this,
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  Speaker 1: For the Friar's fist was proverbial, and few of those
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  Speaker 1: presents had not felt the force of it in times past.
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  Speaker 1: Now tis my turn, said his antagonist, coolly, casting aside
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  Speaker 1: his gauntlet, and with one blow of his fist, the
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  Speaker 1: Knight sent the friars spinning to the ground. If there
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  Speaker 1: had been an uproar and shouting before, it was as
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  Speaker 1: naught to the noise which now broke forth. Every fellow
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  Speaker 1: held his sides or rolled upon the ground from laughter.
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  Speaker 1: Every fellow save one, and that was Robin Hood out
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  Speaker 1: of the frying pan and into the fire, thought he,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had let the fire box my ears.
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  Speaker 1: After all, Robin's plight did indeed seem a sary one
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  Speaker 1: before the steel muscle of his stranger. But he was
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  Speaker 1: saved from a tumble heels overhead by an unlooked for diversion.
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  Speaker 1: A horn winded in the glade, and a party of
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  Speaker 1: knights were seen approaching. To your arms, cried Robin, hurriedly,
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  Speaker 1: seizing his sword and bow. Tis, Sir Richard of the Leah,
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  Speaker 1: cried another. As the troop came nearer, And so it was,
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  Speaker 1: Sir Richard spurred forward his horse and dashed up to
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  Speaker 1: the camp, while the outlaw stood at stiff attention. When
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  Speaker 1: he had come near the spot where the Black Knight stood,
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  Speaker 1: he dismounted and knelt before him. I trust your Majesty
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  Speaker 1: has not needed our arms before, he said, humbly, it
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  Speaker 1: is the king, cried will Scarlett, falling upon his knees.
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  Speaker 1: The king echoed Robin Hood after a moment of dumb wonderment,
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  Speaker 1: and he and all his men bent reverently upon their
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  Speaker 1: knees as one man. So ends Chapter twenty two.