What's your name, you Saxon dog?
Much A better one than yours!
Dickon Malbête [shaking Much]: Look to your manners! This is Sir Guy of Gisbourne.
Much Sir Guy or the Devil! There's little to choose between them.
Much Much the Miller's Son.
Don't you know it's death to kill the King's deer?
Much Yes, and death from hunger if I don't, thanks to you and the rest of you Norman cutthroats at Nottingham Castle.
Dickon Malbête [striking him]: Be quiet, you!
Much I won't be quiet! You can kill me if you like, but not till I've had my say. You can beat and starve us poor Saxons now, but when King Richard escapes, he'll take you by the scruff of the neck and fling you into the sea!
[Guy raises his mace to kill Much, but an arrow dashes his weapon aside]
What the devil?
Robin Hood Come now, Sir Guy. You'd not kill a man for telling the truth, would you?
Robin Hood [to Will Scarlet, referring to Friar Tuck]
It's all right; he's one of us.
WS Will Scarlet
[about Friar Tuck]
One of us? He looks like three of us!
Friar Tuck [Drawing his sword truculently]
Ay - and equal to a full dozen!
Now that you've robbed us and had your fill of insulting us, we wish to leave. Come, Lady Marian.
Robin Hood My own men will escort my Lady. But before you take leave of her, it might be as well if you thanked her for saving your life.
Robin Hood Do you think you would've left this forest alive if it hadn't been for her presence here? Peter! Errol! Take six men guide our loyal host and his nervous friend to the Nottingham road.
Sheriff of Nottingham But our... our horses? Our... our clothes?
Robin Hood You'll return to Nottingham as you are, on foot. This, Sir Guy, will at least be a lesson to you in humility if not in mercy. The rest of your people will be returned tomorrow.
Robin Hood You'd best be started, before I've a change of mind.
Sheriff of Nottingham [Robin's men draw their swords] [to Sir Guy]
I think we'd better go!
He is different from anyone I've ever known. He's, well he's brave and he's reckless, and yet he's...gentle and kind. He's not brutal like...tell me, when you are in love, is it, well, is it hard to think of anybody but, but one person?
Bess Yes, indeed my lady, and sometimes it's a bit of trouble sleeping.
I know, but it's a nice kind of not sleeping.
Bess And it affects your appetite too. Not that I've noticed it's done that to you, except when he was in the dungeon waiting to be hanged.
And does it make you want to be with him all the time?
Bess Yes, and when he's with you, your legs are as weak as water. Tell me, my lady. When he looks at you, do you feel a kind of prickly feeling like goosey pimples running all up and down your spine?...Then there's not a doubt of it.
Robin Hood [entering]
That you're in love. I couldn't help overhearing about that 'prickly feeling.' I'm very glad I did come.
That, that was a game. Now you've got to go at once.
Robin Hood Game, eh? Well, couldn't I join in? Of course, I probably wouldn't be as good at it as, uh, [he playfully pinches Bess' chin] this pretty young girl, but I could do my best.
Bess, will you leave us? Please.
Robin Hood Now let's see, where does this game begin? Oh, I know. It's simple. We'll start where you are in love with me. You are, aren't you? Because I am with you. Terribly. That's why I came. I had to see you.
You must go at once and I don't love you.
Robin Hood Oh! You sure?
Robin Hood Very well then, I'll go. [Robin retreats to the window to descend the ivy.] This is rather unfriendly of you, exposing me to my enemies like this....Goodbye, my lady.
Robin Hood Yes?
Robin Hood Then you do love me, don't you? Don't you?
Robin Hood Well, that's different. [Robin re-enters the window and they share an embrace and kiss.]
You know you're very impudent.
Robin Hood Me?
You are. And when my real guardian King Richard finds out about your being in love with me...
Robin Hood I know, he'll make me court jester.
He won't. He'll stick your funny head on London Gate.
Robin Hood And a very fine decoration it will be, my bold Norman beauty.
Robin Hood But you're a Norman...And you are a beauty. You are the most beautiful...
And you're leaving here at once. Please darling! Every minute you're here, you're in danger.
Robin Hood I'll go...
