. Life in the greenwood . who had shel-tered the kings enemy and thus set his maj-esty at naught. While he was gone RobinHood came to Sir Richard and said to him: * Leave thy horse thee behind, And learn for to run;Thou shalt to the greenwood with me, Through mire and moss and fen. 1 Thou shalt with me to the greenwood,To the greenwood I would thee bring, Until that I shall get us graceFrom Edward, our comely king. Thus it came about that while the sheriffand the abbot and all the rest were frettingand fuming in the town and wondering howthey could bring these unruly outlaws to jus-tice, and w
. Life in the greenwood . who had shel-tered the kings enemy and thus set his maj-esty at naught. While he was gone RobinHood came to Sir Richard and said to him: * Leave thy horse thee behind, And learn for to run;Thou shalt to the greenwood with me, Through mire and moss and fen. 1 Thou shalt with me to the greenwood,To the greenwood I would thee bring, Until that I shall get us graceFrom Edward, our comely king. Thus it came about that while the sheriffand the abbot and all the rest were frettingand fuming in the town and wondering howthey could bring these unruly outlaws to jus-tice, and while the king was preparing on THE SHOOTING MATCH 89 their word to make the journey to Notting-ham himself to see what measures could betaken, — all this time Robin Hood and SirRichard of Lea were walking in the free forestunder the fresh green leaves, with never acare for the morrow. For how could aught gowrong in a world where the birds were singing,and the leaves were growing and blossomswere coming on every bough ?. THE KING IN THE GREENWOOD The king is to come to Nottingham, With knights in great array, For to take that yeoman bold — Robin Hood — if he may. I How the king came to Robin Hoodin Sherwood Forest The king had no mind to have idle outlawsranging his greenwood and living off his a great array of knights and men at armshe came to Nottingham to take Robin Hoodand the knight who had befriended him. Heasked every man he met about Robin Hood,and when he had heard their tales and under-stood the case, he seized all the lands belong-ing to Sir Richard of Lea. Then he scoured allthe country round about for Robin Hood andhis men. He went through every pass of Lancashire, both far and near, even as far as 90 THE KING IN THE GREENWOOD 91 Plimpton Park. Everywhere he found signsof Robin. Where he had been wont to seemany herds of deer, he could find scarcelyone with good horns, and the foresters hadmany a tale to tell of the ravages that hadbeen wrought by Ro
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