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lady Matilda Fitzwater。〃 

    Marian signed acknowledgment。 

     〃Your father;〃 said the king; 〃has approved his fidelity to me; by the 

loss of his lands; which the newness of my return; and many public cares; 

have not yet given me time to restore: but this justice shall be done to him; 

and to thee also; Robin; if thou wilt leave thy forest…life and resume thy 

earldom; and be a peer of Coeur…de…Lion: for braver heart and juster hand 

I never yet found。〃 

    Robin looked round on his men。 

     〃Your followers;〃 said the king; 〃shall have free pardon; and such of 

them as thou wilt part with shall have maintenance from me; and if ever I 

confess to priest; it shall be to thy friar。〃 

     〃Gramercy to your majesty;〃 said the friar; 〃and my inflictions shall be 

flasks    of  canary;   and   if  the  number     be  (as  in  grave    cases   I  may; 

peradventure; make it) too great for one frail mortality; I will relieve you 

by vicarious penance; and pour down my own throat the redundancy of the 

burden。〃 

    Robin     and   his  followers    embraced     the  king's   proposal。   A   joyful 

meeting   soon   followed   with     the   baron   and   Sir   Guy   of   Gamwell:  and 

Richard himself honoured with his own presence a formal solemnization 

of the nuptials of our lovers; whom he constantly distinguished with   his 

peculiar regard。 

    The friar could not say; Farewell to the forest; without something of a 



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heavy     heart:    and     he   sang   as   he   turned   his   back    upon    its  bounds; 

occasionally reverting his head: 

       Ye   woods;   that   oft   at   sultry   noon        Have   o'er   me   spread   your 

messy shade:         Ye gushing streams; whose murmured tune                          Has in 

my     ear  sweet    music    made;     While;     where     the  dancing     pebbles    show 

Deep      in  the   restless   fountain…pool       The     gelid   water's    upward     flow; 

My second flask was laid to cool: 

       Ye   pleasant   sights   of   leaf   and   flower:         Ye   pleasant   sounds   of 

bird and bee:       Ye sports of deer in sylvan bower:                   Ye feasts beneath 

the greenwood tree:         Ye baskings in the vernal sun:                  Ye slumbers in 

the summer dell:         Ye trophies that this arm has won:                   And must ye 

hear your friar's farewell? 

       But    the  friar's  farewell    was    not   destined    to   be  eternal。   He    was 

domiciled as the family confessor of the earl and countess of Huntingdon; 

who led   a discreet   and courtly  life;  and kept   up old   hospitality in   all   its 

munificence; till the death of King Richard and the usurpation of John; by 

placing      their   enemy     in   power;     compelled      them     to  return    to   their 

greenwood   sovereignty;   which;   it   is   probable;   they   would   have   before 

done from choice; if their love of sylvan liberty had not been counteracted 

by   their   desire   to   retain   the   friendship   of   Coeur…de…Lion。   Their   old   and 

tried   adherents;   the   friar   among   the   foremost;   flocked   again   round   their 

forest…banner;   and   in   merry  Sherwood   they  long lived   together;  the   lady 

still   retaining   her   former   name   of   Maid   Marian;   though   the   appellation 

was then as much a misnomer as that of Little John。 

       THE END。 



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