Robin Hood

• “Even for their highwaymen the same virtue is claimed, and Robin Hood comes described to us as mitissimus praedonum, the gentlest thief.”

  English Traits (1856)

• “Robin Hood and Maid Marian, forbidden in Edinburgh by the Kirk, would strut and play openly all day in the country, and lead the games of skill.”

  Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles

• “Peele seems to have been incapable of the proper grace and delectation of comedy: nevertheless the part of Prince Lluellen, of Wales, and his adherents, who figure pretty largely, and sometimes in the disguise of Robin Hood and his merry men, shows something of comic talent, and adds to the entertainment of the piece.”

  Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters

• “The wood was a remnant of the great forest where Robin Hood hunted, and this riding was an old, old thoroughfare coming across country.”

  Lady Chatterley's Lover

• “They hold the merriness of Merry England, of yew longbows, of Robin Hood and his outlaw band.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “Thus Ethan Allen had become a kind of Robin Hood among the mountains.”

  Good Stories for Great Holidays

• “You vandals have caused Social Security Records enormous prob - lems, and Robin Hood cut IRS revenues by three percent last year.”

  True Names

• “Kindness of the Celestial (1894), The Romantic History of Robin Hood (1898), Lindley Kays (1904),”

  A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

• “I rode horses across everything from Robin Hood via Bosworth Field to the Charge of the Light Brigade.”

  Smokescreen

• “Even Robin Hood hadn't mastered that trick -- but appar - ently DON and Wiley thought the Mailman had done that and more.”

  True Names

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