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"And so shall I," said his squire; "for it seems that in this case knowledge will for once be a cure for hunger, wherewith I am grievously afflicted." "And why are you so busy, my pretty damsels, weaving these garlands?" said the knight. "Why, do you not know, sir," said one of the young women, "that to-morrow is Gamwell feast?"
I tell thee, coz, that thou art the strongest man that ever I laid mine eyes upon. I take my vow, I felt my stomach quake when I beheld thee pluck up yon green tree as thou didst. But tell me, how camest thou to leave Sir Edward and thy mother?" "Alas!" answered young Gamwell, "it is an ill story, uncle, that I have to tell thee.
Eva's fortnight was almost up, and I was hoping to see something of her before I went on leave when one night in she came with the news that I was the next one for it hardly a welcome surprise; and down at barges that evening it was a Sunday Gamwell, the Sergeant, told me officially I was to take on the job next morning at 5 a.m.
'The mother of Robin said to her husband, My honey, my love, and my dear. And all this for leave to ride with her son to see her own brother at Gamwell. 'I remember, said Dorcas, with a smile. 'I wonder what has become of that old book, with its odd little woodcuts. 'And he said, I grant thee thy boon, gentle Joan! Take one of my horses straightway.
The sheriff, who was willing to have his share of the prize, determined to accompany the knight in person, and regaled him and his man with good store of the best; after which, they, with a stout retinue of fifty men, took the way to Gamwell feast. "God's my life," said the sheriff, as they rode along, "I had as lief you would tell me of a service of plate.
He rode to the august structure of retributive Themis, as the French call a gallows, in all the pride and pomp of shrievalty, and with a splendid retinue of well-equipped knaves and varlets, as our ancestors called honest serving-men. Young Gamwell was brought forth with his arms pinioned behind him; his sister Alice and his father, Sir Guy, attending him in disconsolate mood.
'Well, though the book is lost, we retain the moral, you see, said Rachel with a little laugh; 'and it has always seemed to me that if it had not been necessary to say, "my honey, my love, and my dear," that good soul would not have said it, and you may be pretty sure that if she had not, and with the suitable by-play too, she might not have ridden to Gamwell that day.
We must make good our post, and let them dislodge us if they may." The two parties were now near enough to parley; and the sheriff and the knight, advancing in the front of the cavalcade, called on the lady, the friar, young Gamwell, and the foresters, to deliver up that false-traitor, Robert, formerly Earl of Huntingdon.
That is the question." "Where Sir Guy of Gamwell has found it," said Robin Hood, "near the borders of Barnsdale. There you may dwell in safety with him and fair Alice, till King Richard return, and Little John shall give you safe conduct.
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.
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