Kallman and N. Your guess at the tempo seems more or less in accord with that given in the book. There are some slight differences in the tune, but it is mostly the same.
The text is also mostly the same. At this Robin grew right mad. I'll hold you twenty marks that, by leave of Our Lady, I cause the best hart among them to die. I wager that thou causest no beast to die, with or without the aid of Our Lady. Then Robin took his good yew bow in his hand, and placing the tip at his instep, he strung it right deftly; then he nocked a broad clothyard arrow and, raising the bow, drew the gray goose feather to his ear; the next moment the bowstring rang and the arrow sped down the glade as a sparrowhawk skims in a northern wind.
High leaped the noblest hart of all the herd, only to fall dead, reddening the green path with his heart's blood. I wot the wager were mine, an it were three hundred pounds. Then all the foresters were filled with rage, and he who had spoken the first and had lost the wager was more angry than all. Never a word said Robin Hood, but he looked at the foresters with a grim face; then, turning on his heel, strode away from them down the forest glade. But his heart was bitterly angry, for his blood was hot and youthful and prone to boil.
Beric the Briton G. The Gadfly Ethel Voynich. Father Goriot Honore de Balzac. Youngsters can read how Robin becomes an outlaw, gets a ducking from Little John and encounters a disguised Maid Marian. Recounts the classic tales of Robin Hood, his merry men, and Maid Marian as they try to outwit the Sheriff of Nottingham and the tyrannical Prince John. Robin Hood was the king of Sherwood Forest. He was not afraid of the king, his officials anything else.
This novel tells his tale in a brief manner. Robin Hood was the hero of the youth in the past; he is so even in the new era. This novel is an all-time favourite of all reader classes. The original flavour of these classics has been carefully retained in these abridged versions.
Must be read by the youth, housewives, students and executives. Robin Hood is champion of the poor and oppressed by 12th-century England against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. He takes refuge with his Merrie Men in the vast Sherwood Forest, emerging time and again to outwit his enemies with daring and panache.
This book presents the story of social justice and cunning. The outlaw Robin hood is determined to stop the evil Sheriff of Nottingham from bribing his way to becoming King.
He sets out to steal the Sheriff's treasure - by winning an archery competition and becoming one the Sheriff's chief guard. But when his gang are all captured, will Robin be able to save them from the hangman's noose? He robbed from the rich and gave to the poor, and had escapades enough to please any adventure-loving child. Now even the youngest readers can have the chance to enter Sherwood Forest with Robin's band of merry men, and meet such unforgettable characters as Friar Tuck, Little John, Allan-a-Dale, the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham, and wicked King John.
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