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guess who that forester was: but truly this friar is a desperate fellow. I did not think there could have been so much valour under a grey frock. And so you wounded the knight in the arm. You are a wild girl, Mawd: a chip of the old block, Mawd. A wild girl, and a wild friar, and three or four foresters, wild lads all, to keep a bridge against a tame knight, and a tame sheriff and fifty tame varlets: by this light, the like was never heard: but do you know, Mawd, you must not go about so any more, sweet Mawd: you must stay at home: you must ensconce: for there is your tame sheriff on the one hand, that will take you per force; and there is your wild forester on the other, that will take you without any force at all, Mawd: your wild forester, Robin, cousin Robin, Robin Hood of Sherwood forest, that beats and binds bishops, spreads nets for archbishops,

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