 | Hugh Latimer (bp. of Worcester.) - 1758 - 568 pages
...more ; at laft the key was found, and one of the parifh comes to me and faid : Sir, this is a bufy day with us, we cannot hear you; it is Robin Hood's day. The parifh are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood : I pray you hinder them not. I was fain there to give... | |
 | John Jackson - Theater - 1793 - 500 pages
...informed, *' This is a bufy day^whh tis f we cannot hear you : It is Robin |leod's day : The parifh are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let, (binder) them not. I was fain (continues the Bifhop) to give place to Robin Hood. I thought my rocket... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Wild flowers - 1799 - 200 pages
...half an houre or more, and at last, the key was found ; one of the parish came to me and says, ' Syr, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you; it...gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not.' So," as the good bishop observes, " he was fain to give place to Robin Hood, and his men."... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1804 - 548 pages
...layers, Syr, this is a buf'y day with us, we canr.ot hear you ; it i« Robin Hoodc's clay; the pariih are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood ; I pray you let them not. I thought my rochet would have been regarded; but it would not 'lerve ; it was faine to give... | |
 | English literature - 1804 - 578 pages
...and faves, Syr, this is a bufy day with us, we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Hoode's day ; the parifh are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood ; I pray you let them not. I thought my rochet would have been regarded ; but it would not ferve ; it was faine to give... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1809 - 546 pages
...locked. I tarried there half an hour and more: at last, one of the parish comes to me, and says, Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you: it...are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood: I pray you hinder them not. And so I was fain to give place to Robin Hood. And all this cometh of unpreaching... | |
 | 1853 - 640 pages
...found. One of the parish came to me, and says, ' Syr, this is a busie day with us ; we cannot heare you : it is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone...for Robin Hood. I pray you let' (hinder) 'them not.' So I was fain to give place unto Robin Hood and his men." We have spoken of the Glastonbury thorn.... | |
 | Hugh Latimer - Sermons, English - 1824 - 478 pages
...half an hour and more; at last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says, " Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you ; it...gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood: I pray you let them not." I was fain there to give place to Robin Hood: I thought my rochet should have been regarded,... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1824 - 294 pages
...door was fast locked. I tarried half an hour. At last one of the parish comes to me, and says, « Sir, this is a busy day with us ; we cannot hear you : it is Robin Hood's day : the parish is gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood; I pray you hinder them not.' So I was fain to give place to... | |
 | Augustin Thierry - Great Britain - 1825 - 574 pages
...last the key was found, and one of the parishioners comes to me and sayes : ' Syr, this is a busye day with us ; we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Hood's...the parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood '.' " The bishop had clothed himself in his ecclesiastical habit ; he was obliged to take it off, and... | |
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Sir, this is a busy day with us. We cannot hear you; it is Robin Hood's Day."' The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not. 
