Maid MarianT. Hookham, ... and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 - 262 páginas |
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abbot Arlingford Castle arms arrow Barnsdale baron bishop bold Robin bowmen bramble Brother Michael called canary CHAP chapel confessor cottage cracked damsel dance daughter devil door earl of Huntingdon earl's eyes Father Michael fear fighting flask flowers Friar Tuck Gamwell feast Gamwell-Hall ghostly give green greenwood hand Harpiton HEADLONG HALL heard honour hospitality hunting jolly king's deer king's men lady Matilda leaves so brown liege little friar Little John Locksley looked Lord Fitzwater lover Maid Marian master Matilda Fitzwater Mawd merry monk never old knight outlaw portmanteau Prince John Queen river Robin and Marian Robin Hood rode sack Saint Saint Botolph sang Scarlet sheriff of Nottingham Sherwood forest singing Sir Guy sir knight Sir Ralph Montfaucon smile spirit squire storm stranger sweet sword thee thief thou tilda toll tree true turned valour varlet venison voice wild wine wound young Gamwell
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Página 34 - For the slender beech and the sapling oak That grow by the shadowy rill, You may cut down both at a single stroke, You may cut down which you will. But this you must know, that as long as they grow, Whatever change may be, You never can teach either oak or beech To be aught but a greenwood tree.
Página 158 - Oh ! bold Robin Hood is a forester good. As ever drew bow in the merry greenwood: At his bugle's shrill singing the echoes are ringing. The wild deer are springing for many a rood ; Its summons we follow, through brake, over hollow, The thrice-blown shrill summons of bold Robin Hood. And what eye hath ere seen such a sweet Maiden Queen As Marian, the pride of the forester's, green...
Página 146 - Robin Hood is king of the forest both by dignity of birth and by virtue of his standing army; to say nothing of the free choice of his people, which he has indeed, but I pass it by as an illegitimate basis of power. He holds his dominion over the forest, and its horned multitude of citizen-deer, and its swinish multitude or peasantry of wild boars, by right of conquest and force of arms. He levies contributions among them by the free consent of his archers, their virtual representatives. If they...
Página 144 - in Friar Tuck, of Sherwood Forest. Truly, I have a chapel here hard by, in the shape of a hollow tree, where I put up my prayers for travelers; and Little John holds the plate at the door, for good praying deserves good paying.
Página 148 - From whom, both ? From all that they could or can make pay them. Why did any pay them to William ? Why do any pay them to Robin ? For the same reason, to both : because they could not or cannot help it. They differ indeed in this, — that William took from the poor and gave to the rich, and Robin takes from the rich and gives to the poor; and therein is Robin illegitimate, though in all else he is true prince.
Página 145 - Jn the very best of company," said the friar, " in the high court of Nature, and in the midst of her own nobility. Is it not so ? This goodly grove is our palace : the oak and the beech are its colonnade and its canopy : the sun and the moon and the stars are its everlasting lamps : the grass, and the daisy, and the primrose, and the violet, are its manycoloured floor of green, white, yellow., and blue ; the may-flower, and the woodbine, and...
Página 148 - William took from the poor and gave to the rich, and Robin takes from the rich and gives to the poor : and therein is Robin illegitimate ; though in all else he is true prince. Scarlet and John, are they not peers of the forest ? lords temporal of Sherwood ? And am not I lord spiritual ? Am I not archbishop ? Am I not pope ? Do I not consecrate their banner and absolve their sins ? Are not they state, and am not I church ? Are not they state monarchical, and am not I church militant ? Do I not excommunicate...
Página 2 - The abbey of Rubygill stood in a picturesque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood forest, in B a spot which seemed adapted by nature to be the retreat of monastic mortification, being on the banks of a fine trout-stream, and in the midst of woodland coverts, abounding with excellent game.
Página 17 - She can fence," said the little friar, " and draw the long bow, and play at singlestick, and quarter-staff." " Yet mark you," said Brother Michael, " not like a virago or a hoyden, or one that would crack a serving-man's head for spilling gravy on her ruff, but with such womanly grace and temperate self-command, as if those manly exercises belonged to her only, and were become for her sake feminine.
Página 147 - What title had William of Normandy to England, that Robin of Locksley has not to merry Sherwood ? William fought for his claim. So does Robin. With whom both ? With any that would or will dispute it. William raised contributions. So does Robin. From whom both ? From all that they could or can make pay them. Why did any pay them to William ? Why do any pay them to Robin ? For the same reason to both : because they could not or cannot help it. They differ indeed in this, that William took from the...