Maid Marian and Crotchet Castle Author:Thomas Love Peacock General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: Ward and Lock Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / Other Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR ... more »reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: The grey friars prayed with a doleful face, But bold Robin prayed with a right merry grace, Singing, hey down, ho down, down, derry down : And when they had prayed, their portmanteau he took, And from it a hundred good angels he shook, All on the fallen leaves so brown. " The saints," said bold Robin, "have hearkened out prayer, And here's a good angel apiece for your share: If more you would have, you must win ere you wear: Singing hey down, ho down, down, derry down :" Then he blew his good born with a musical cheer, And fifty green bowmen came trooping full near. And away the grey friars they bounded like deer, All on the fallen leaves so brown. CHAPTER XIII. What can a young lasŁe, what shall a young lassie, What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man? -- Burns. " Hebe is but five shillings and a ring," said Little John, " and the young man has spoken true." " Then,' said Robin to the stranger, " if want of money be the cause of your melancholy, speak. Little John is my treasurer, and he shall disburse to you." " It is, and it is not," said the stranger ; "it is, because, had I not wanted money I had never lost my love ; it is not, because, now that I have lost her, money would come too late to regain her." " In what way have you lost her ? " said Robin : " let us clearly know that she is past regaining, before we give up our wishes to restore h...« less