"I have no great wisdom in the game, boy yet readily will I go with you."
ROBIN HOOD LEGEND OF SHERWOOD BLINKING HOW TO
There Warrenton is to show me how to notch arrows and pick a courtly bow." Father," Robin added, "come with us now to the pleasance. With you beside us to point the moral, much benefit shall accrue, for sure. "For that cause alone will we go, dear friend," retorted Robin. The mud in the meadows of Nottingham will surely spoil the bravery of the Fair, and show us too plainly how trumpery and vain a matter it is."
"Boy," said he to Robin, "I pray that you do not think upon Nottingham today.
ROBIN HOOD LEGEND OF SHERWOOD BLINKING FULL
The monk knew full well that there was good cause for his pupil's fatigue and had set himself to discover the true meaning of it. Robin and his esquire slept late but no one offered to disturb their slumbers. The morning broke dull and threateningly over Gamewell. The affair of the tumblers and Robin's discovery of him had warned Master Will not to stay overlong in the town, so Geoffrey had to depend upon his plan of appearing as the Scarlet Knight. He had gone here chiefly to bear a scroll to the Prince's emissary, and to declare fealty to John but Thus we know that Master Will had more reasons than one for appearing as a wizard at Nottingham Fair. Had sad black been the note, John's man would have guessed that friends were still to seek about Nottingham. To this end he now journeyed through the Midlands in many disguises, trying to stir up the outlaws and robbers of the forests to take up arms with John, under a promise that the Prince (if successful) would grant them amnesty and a goodly share of the spoils sure to fall to them.Ī spy was to attend at Nottingham Fair to know how matters had progressed with the outlaws of Sherwood but, since it was too dangerous to attempt an open meeting, Geoffrey had arranged a simple code of signalling by color.ĭid he appear as a knight unknown and disinherited, bound on his arms and steed with red trappings, the spy, eyeing him from beside the Sheriff of Nottingham, would know that Will o' th' Green was to be trusted, and would promptly bear the joyful news to his Royal Master. The Prince had shown him kindness, and now that the rebellion had failed, Geoffrey felt it incumbent upon him to remain with the beaten side, and endeavor to recover the advantage lost to them. To John's rebellion against his father, Henry of England, the younger Montfichet had given himself body and soul. Geoffrey Montfichet's reason for wishing to be known as the Scarlet Knight was no idle whimsey, as the other had guessed. Sacred Texts Sagas & Legends England Index Previous Next
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