Tales of romance; based on tales in the Book of romance . F EOBIN HOOD. 15 In the face, and the Abbot felt uneasy, he didnot know why, and hated the Knight more thanever. Out of my hall, false Knight! cried he,pretending to a courage which he did not the Knight stayed where he was, andanswered him, You lie, Abbot. Never wasI false, and that I have shown in jousts andin tourneys. Give him two hundred pounds more, saidthe Justiciar to the Abbot, and keep the landsyourself. No, by Heaven! answered the Knight,not if you offered me a thousand poundswould I do it! Neither Justiciar, Abbot,
Tales of romance; based on tales in the Book of romance . F EOBIN HOOD. 15 In the face, and the Abbot felt uneasy, he didnot know why, and hated the Knight more thanever. Out of my hall, false Knight! cried he,pretending to a courage which he did not the Knight stayed where he was, andanswered him, You lie, Abbot. Never wasI false, and that I have shown in jousts andin tourneys. Give him two hundred pounds more, saidthe Justiciar to the Abbot, and keep the landsyourself. No, by Heaven! answered the Knight,not if you offered me a thousand poundswould I do it! Neither Justiciar, Abbot, norMonk shall be heir of mine. Then he strodeup to a table and emptied out four hundredpounds. Take your gold, Sir Abbot, whichyou lent to me a year agone. Had you butreceived me civilly, I would have paid yousomething more. Sir Abbot, and ye men of law, Now have I kept my day!Now shall I have my land again, For aught that you may say. So he passed out of the hall singing merrily,leaving the Abbot staring silently after him, 16 THE STOBY OF fiOBIN 1C (I THE STORY OF ROBIN HOOD. 17 and rode back to his house, where his wifemet him at the gate. Welcome, my lord, said his lady, Sir, lost is all your merry, dame, said the Knight,And pray for Eobin Hood. But for his kindness, we had been STORY OF ROBIN HOOD. * PART V. AFTER this the Knight dwelt at home, lookingafter his lands and saving his money carefully,till the four hundred pounds lay ready forRobin Hood. Then he bought a hundred bowsand a hundred arrows, and every arrow was anell long, and had a head of silver and peacocksfeathers. And clothing himself in white andred, and with a hundred men in his train, heset off to Sherwood Forest. On the way he passed an open space near abridge where there was a wrestling, and theKnight stopped and looked, for he himself hadtaken many a prize in that sport. Here theprizes were such as to fill any man with envy;a fine horse, saddled and bridled, a great white 18 T
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