Sherwood Or Robin Hood And the Three Kings a Play in Five Acts

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TITANIA [Coming out into the glade and holding up her hands to the evening star beyond the tree- tops.,] Shine, shine, dear star of Love, yet one night more. Scene II. A banqueting hall in Fitzwalter's castle. The guests are assembling for the betrothal feast of Robin and Marian. Some of Robin Hood's men, clad in Li

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ncoln green, are just arriving at the doors. Shadow-of-a-leaf runs forward to greet them. SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF Come in, my scraps of Lincoln green; come in, My slips of greenwood. You're much wanted herel Head, heart and eyes, we are all pent up in walls Of stone ? nothing but walls on every side ? And not a rose to break them ? big blind walls, Neat smooth stone walls! Come in, my ragged robins; Come in, my jolly minions of the moon, My straggling hazel-boughs! Hey, bully friar, Come in, my knotted oak! Ho, little Much, Come in, my sweet green linnet. Come, my cushats, Larks, yellow-hammers, fern-owls, Oh, come in, Come in, my Dian's foresters, and drown us With may, with blossoming may! FITZWALTER Out, Shadow-of-a-Leaf! Welcome, welcome, good friends of Huntingdon, Or Robin Hood, by whatsoever name You best may love him. CRIES Robin! Robin! Robin! [Enter Robin Hood.] FITZWALTER Robin, so be it! Myself I am right glad To call him at this bright betrothal feast My son. [Lays a hand on Robin's shoulder.) Yet, though I would not cast a cloud Across our happy gathering, you'll forgive An old man and a father if he sees All your glad faces thro' a summer mist Of sadness. ROBIN Sadness? Yes, I understand. FITZWALTER No, Robin, no, you cannot understand. ROBIN Where's Marian? FITZWALTER Ay, that's all you think of, boy. But I must say a word to all of you Before she comes. ROBIN Why ... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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