Maid MarianJ.M. Dent & Company, 1892 - 172 strani |
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abbot Arlingford Castle arms arrow Barnsdale baron bishop bold Robin bramble brother Michael called canary chapel CHAPTER cottage cracked damsel dance daughter devil Earl of Huntingdon earl's eyes farewell father Michael fear fighting flask flowers Friar Tuck Gamwell feast ghostly give green greenwood tree Guy of Gamwell hand Harpiton heard honour hunting jolly king's deer king's men Lady Matilda leaves so brown liege little fat friar little friar Little John Locksley looked Lord Fitzwater lover Maid Marian master Matilda Fitzwater Mawd merry monk never old knight outlaw Peacock's portmanteau Prince John river Robin and Marian Robin Hood rode Rubygill Abbey sack Saint Saint Botolph Scarlet sheriff of Nottingham Sherwood Forest singing Sir Guy sir knight Sir Ralph Montfaucon smile spirit squire storm stranger sweet sword thee thief thou toll true turned valour varlet venison voice wild William Gamwell wine wound young Gamwell
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Stran 135 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Stran 108 - I forsake my plighted love, and my own liege lord, who was your choice before he was mine, for you made him my associate in infancy; and that he continued to be mine when he ceased to be yours, does not in any way show remissness in my duties, or falling off in my affections. And though I here plight my troth at the altar to Robin, in the presence of this holy priest and pious clerk, yet — Father, when Richard returns from Palestine, he will restore you to your barony, and perhaps, for your sake,...
Stran 15 - SCOTT. abbot, in his alb arrayed," stood at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, in goodly lines disposed, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of the Baron of Arlingford, with the noble Robert FitzOoth, Earl of Locksley and Huntingdon. The abbey of Rubygill stood in a picturesque valley, at a little distance from the western boundary of Sherwood Forest, in a spot which seemed adapted by nature to be the retreat of monastic...
Stran 51 - Though I be now a grey, grey friar. Yet I was once a hale young knight: The cry of my dogs was the only choir In which my spirit did take delight. Little I recked of matin bell, But drowned its toll with my clanging horn: And the only beads I loved to tell Were the beads of dew on the spangled thorn.
Stran 35 - 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.
Stran 24 - Indeed, reverend father," said Sir Ralph, " if the young lady be half what you describe, she must be a paragon : but your commending her for valour does somewhat amaze me." ' " She can fence," said the little friar, " and draw the long bow, and play at single-stick 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...
Stran 23 - A mad girl, a mad girl," said the little friar. " How a mad girl ? " said brother Michael. " Has she not beauty, grace, wit, sense, discretion, dexterity, learning, and valour ? " " Learning ! " exclaimed the little friar ; " what has a woman to do with learning ? And valour ! who ever heard a woman commended for valour?
Stran 121 - have hearkened our prayer, And here's a good angel apiece for your share ; If more you would have, you must win ere you wear ; Singing hey down, ho down, down, derry down " : Then he blew his good horn with a musical cheer, And fifty green bowmen came trooping full near, And away the grey friars they bounded like deer, All on the fallen leaves so brown.
Stran 102 - 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...
Stran 31 - while yet I live, The cruel foe me take ; But with thy sweet lips a last kiss give, And cast me in the lake." Around his neck she wound her arms, And she kissed his lips so pale ; And evermore the war's alarms Came louder up the vale. She drew him to the lake's steep side, Where the red heath fringed the shore ; She plunged with him beneath the tide, And they were seen no more. Their...