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and hunts a fat abbot as if he were a buck: excellent game, no doubt: but you must hunt no more in such company. I see it now: truly I might have guessed before that the bold outlaw Robin, the most courteous Robin, the new thief of Sherwood forest, was your lover, the earl that has been: I might have guessed it before, and what led you so much to the woods; but you hunt no more in such company. No more May-games and Gamwell feasts. My lands and castle would be the forfeit of a few more such pranks: and I think they are as well in my hands as the king's, quite as well."

"You know, father," said Matilda, "the condition of keeping me at home: I get out if I can, and not on parole."

"Ay! ay!" said the baron, "if you can: very true: watch and ward, Mawd, watch

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