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" Sir this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you, it is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not. "
Introductions, and Notes and Illustrations to the Novels, Tales, and ... - Page 174
by Walter Scott - 1833
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Old and modern Edinburgh: a historical sketch

1865 - 396 pages
...half an hour waiting for the key, he was told by one of his unwilling attendants, " This is a busy day with us; we cannot hear you. It is Robin Hood's...are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood; I pray you hinder them not." " I thought," says the bishop, " my rochet should have been regarded, though I were...
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History of the Landed Tenures of Great Britain & Ireland, from the Norman ...

Alfred A. Walton - 1865 - 152 pages
...more, at last the key was found, and one of the parishe comes to me and says, ' Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you, it is Robin Hood's day,* the parishe are gone abroad together for Robin Hood, I pray you hinder them not.' " The bishop had put...
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Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances, Volume 1

Thomas Percy - 1867 - 634 pages
...proposed preaching in some country church, " one of the parish comes to me, and says ' Sir, this is a busy day with us. We cannot hear you. It is Robin Hood's...to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not,' " and the full description of the merry outlaws in Drayton's "Polyolbion," Song 26, and the notice...
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Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances, Volume 1

Thomas Percy - 1867 - 640 pages
...country church, " one of the parish comes to me, and says ' Sir, this is a busy day with us. We caunot hear you. It is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone...gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not,'" and the full description of the merry outlaws in Drayton's " Polyolbion,'' Song 26, and the notice...
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Robin Hood: A Collection of Poems, Songs, and Ballads Illustrated

1867 - 482 pages
...and one of the parishioners comes to me, and sayes, " Syr, this a busye day with us ; we cannot heare you ; it is Robin Hood's day ; the parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. " ' Latimer had already put on his episcopal gown, but was obliged to take it off, and go forward on...
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The Abbot

Walter Scott - 1871 - 670 pages
...locked. 1 tarryed there halfe an houre and more. At last the key was found, and one of the parish come: to me and said, — ' Sir, this is a busie day with...us, we cannot hear you; it is Robin Hood's day. The pariah are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood1. I pray you let them not.' I was faine there to give...
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle

1872 - 794 pages
...more : at last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says, ' Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Hood's day, the pariah are gone abroad to gather for Bobin Hood : I pray you let them not.' I was fain then to give...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1873 - 984 pages
...more. At last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says, ' Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Hood's...gather for Robin Hood : I pray you let them not.' I was fain there to give place to Robin Hood. I thought my rochet should have been regarded, though I were...
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The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society ..., Volume 2

Charles Knight - 1874 - 562 pages
...more. At last the key was found ; and one of the parish comes to me and says, ' Sir, this is a busy day with us ; we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Hood's...parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood.' " Robin Hood was the chief personage in the ancient celebration of May-day ; and the gathering for...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...more ; at last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says : ' Sir, this is a busy ers [hinder] them not.1 I was fain then to give place to Robin Hood. I thought my rochet should have been...
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