Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TITANIA [Coming out into the glade and holding up her hands to the evening star beyond the tree- tops.,] Shine, shine, dear star of Love, yet one night more. Scene II. A banqueting hall in Fitzwalter's castle. The guests are assembling for the betrothal feast of Robin and Marian. Some of Robin Hood's men, clad in Lincoln green, are just arriving at the doors. Shadow-of-a-leaf runs forward to greet them. SHADOW-OF-A-LEAF Come in, my scraps of Lincoln green; come in, My slips of greenwood. You're much wanted herel Head, heart and eyes, we are all pent up in walls Of stone — nothing but walls on every side — And not a rose to break them — big blind walls, Neat smooth stone walls! Come in, my ragged robins; Come in, my jolly minions of the moon, My straggling hazel-boughs! Hey, bully friar, Come in, my knotted oak! Ho, little Much, Come in, my sweet green linnet. Come, my cushats, Larks, yellow-hammers, fern-owls, Oh, come in, Come in, my Dian's foresters, and drown us With may, with blossoming may! FITZWALTER Out, Shadow-of-a-Leaf! Welcome, welcome, good friends of Huntingdon, Or Robin Hood, by whatsoever name You best may love him. CRIES Robin! Robin! Robin! [Enter Robin Hood.] FITZWALTER Robin, so be it! Myself I am right glad To call him at this bright betrothal feast My son. [Lays a hand on Robin's shoulder.) Yet, though I would not cast a cloud Across our happy gathering, you'll forgive An old man and a father if he sees All your glad faces thro' a summer mist Of sadness. ROBIN Sadness? Yes, I understand. FITZWALTER No, Robin, no, you cannot understand. ROBIN Where's Marian? FITZWALTER Ay, that's all you think of, boy. But I must say a word to all of you Before she comes. ROBIN Why ... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.