The Adventures Of Robin Hood Quotes
"Grey and ghostly shadows are gliding through the brake, Shadows of the dappled deer, dreaming of the morn, Dreaming of a shadowy man that winds a shadowy horn." - Alfred Noyes, Sherwood (1903)
"For an outlaw could own nothing, and anyone who killed him would be rewarded."
"He was a cruel, merciless man, and most of his followers were as bad as he."
"We cannot live long upon grass and herbs like an ox, nor upon the roots that the swine eat."
"I am called Worman, Steward to Robert Fitzooth, Earl of Huntingdon."
"I have heard tell of this nonsense before – David Lord Carrick is the Earl – Northumberland’s son."
"He is well outlawed. May a blessing rest upon the head of the man who cuts him off!"
"You have called me Robin Hood: both you and your Sheriff – yes and Prince John himself shall live to fear that name."
"An hundred valiant men had this brave Robin Hood, Still ready at his call, that bowmen were right good, All clad in Lincoln green, with caps of red and blue."
"It is full merry in fair forest to hear the small birds’ song."
"To see the deer draw to the dale and leave the hills’ high lea and shadow them in the leaves so green under the greenwood tree."
"No man is compelled to give alms, save only by his conscience."
"A good doctrine, but the office of a priest is to awake the conscience."
"I dare be sworn Sir Richard of Legh is true and trustworthy."
"With blossom and with birds aroun', that all bliss bringeth."
"They’re culled in the forest of merry Sherwood, and never will spare a foe."
"I think it must be a man they call Robin Hood."
"No mercy, no mercy!" replied Robin. "Therefore make haste and come with me to my dwelling place. Little John, bind his eyes, and some of you do the like for his followers. And take up the deer."
"The last blow pays all," answered Robin, stepping forward himself. "I have bowled over the friar before now – and stood up to his buffet, too. But I am mortally afraid of you, you mighty man!"
"I cannot and will not!" shouted the Bishop. "Oh, take care! I have a swollen vein in my right leg, and if you prick me there, I shall die!"
"We are shepherds," answered the leader, "and usually we are with our sheep on the Belvoir pastures. But today we have decided to make merry, and so we have killed this fine fat deer for our dinner!"
"By the Mass," he exclaimed, "you are the strongest man that ever I met… Say now, good palmer, will you not doff your habit and come dwell with us here in the greenwood?"
"We do his business here, as I have tried to show you," answered Robin, but the palmer only shook his head and smiled.
"‘I see,’ answered Robin, ‘and that reminds me, we have a prisoner – one who assaults women when no man is by to protect them."
"‘Richard!’ he gasped. ‘King Richard, my brother – come back to punish me.’"
"‘Stand up again,’ said the King, raising Robin. ‘Stand up, my friend – I freely pardon you, and all here present…'"
"‘My Lord of Huntingdon,’ said Richard as they rode, ‘your lands and titles are restored to you this day – but I will take from you all those of your late followers who will serve me faithfully.'"
"‘Rumours!’ exclaimed Robin impatiently. ‘You are full of rumours, Little John – there have been so many rumours, and all of them false.'"
"‘Devil!’ gasped Robin. ‘Alas, poor England, ruled by such a king as you!’"
"‘I pray you, dear Robin, do what Little John wishes!’ begged Marian."
"‘If there is danger,’ he answered, ‘that danger will threaten you rather than me – if it comes from Prince John.'"
"‘We cannot defend this house,’ gasped Robin. ‘My honest friends, get you gone swiftly. Marian, to horse and away.'"
"‘It is the ghost of Robin Hood!’ screamed the Sheriff, a ghastly green in the moonlight."
"‘Now woe is me!’ cried the captain in his turn. ‘Here comes a French pirate craft to take all our fish from us.'"
"‘Then there I must seek her!’ cried Robin, trying to rise from the bed."
"‘Oh, Robin, my lord, my love!’ she cried, and Robin’s arms sought to hold her and draw her to him, but could not."
"‘Here have I come to die,’ he said, ‘and where else could I ask to die but in your arms.’"
"‘Lay a green sod under my head and another at my feet, and lay my bent bow at my side which was sweet music while I lived.'"