 | 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... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 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 is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not.' So," as the good bishop observes,... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1809 - 546 pages
...church. When I came there, the church-door was fast locked. I tarried there half an hour and more: at last, one of the parish comes to me, and says,...cannot hear you: it is Robin Hood's day: the parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood: I pray you hinder them not. And so I was fain to give place... | |
 | Hugh Latimer - 1824 - 478 pages
...church door was fast locked. I tarried there half an hour and more; at last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says, " Sir, this...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." I was fain there to give place... | |
 | Augustin Thierry - 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 day : the parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood '.' " The bishop had clothed himself in his ecclesiastical... | |
 | Hugh Latimer - 1832 - 372 pages
...church door was fast locked. I tarried there half an hour and more ; at last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says, " Sir, this...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." I was fain there to give place... | |
 | 1832 - 352 pages
...church door was fast locked. I tarried there half an hour and more ; at last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says, " Sir, this...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." I was fain there to give place... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 472 pages
...more. At last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me, and said, — Sir, this is a busie 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. ' I was faine there to give place... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 474 pages
...more. At last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me, and said, — Sir, this is a busie 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. ' I was faine there to give place... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1835 - 636 pages
...church door was fast locked. 1 tarried there half an hour and more. At last the key was found ; when one of the parish comes to me and says, ' Sir ! this...cannot hear you. It is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you hinder them not.' So I was fain there to give... | |
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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. 
