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But a new town has grown up around the harbour—a grand hotel, excellent lodging-houses, a new church; a great population have upset the romance, and borne witness to the spirit of enterprise which characterizes this generation. The new town has spread to Kirkley, has Londonized even quiet Pakefield, and awakened a sleeping neighbourhood to what men call life.
'And what is that boon, said Robin Hood, 'which Little John begs of me? And Little John answered, 'It is to burn fair Kirkley Hall, and all the nunnery. But Robin Hood, in spite of the wrong that had been done him, would not listen to Little John's cry for revenge. 'I never hurt a woman in all my life, he said, 'nor a man that was in her company.
For two and twenty years Robin Hood dwelt in Sherwood Forest after he had run away from Court, and naught that the King could say would tempt him back again. At the end of that time he fell ill; he neither ate nor drank, and had no care for the things he loved. 'I must go to merry Kirkley, said he, 'and have my blood let. But Will Scarlett, who heard his words, spoke roundly to him.
Robin lived till the age of eighty-seven, and he might have lived longer but that a treacherous relative, the prioress of Kirkley to whose care he had entrusted himself in order that he might be bled allowed him to bleed to death. At the time indicated in Tennyson's comedy the year 1194, which was the year of King Richard's return from captivity in Germany he was thirty-four years old.
Gregory Drax was the broad-girthed young master of a trading-smack which coasted between London and Berwick, and was even at that hour in Kirkley Roads, standing off Yarmouth. All a summer this endured, but went no further while Amilcare, new to the blunt ways of the English, was unable to stomach their cropped speech any better than their sour beer.
At the end of that time he fell ill; he neither ate nor drank, and had no care for the things he loved. "I must go to merry Kirkley," said he, "and have my blood let." But Will Scarlett, who heard his words, spoke roundly to him. "Not by MY leave, nor without a hundred bowmen at your back. For there abides an evil man, who is sure to quarrel with you, and you will need us badly."
And Little John answered, "It is to burn Kirkley Hall, and all the nunnery." But Robin Hood, in spite of the wrong that had been done him, would not listen to Little John's cry for revenge. "I never hurt a woman in all my life," he said, "nor a man that was in her company. But now my time is done. That know I well.
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