Mass, we take all at once.

What then?
It is tax by redemption and tithe by commutation.

Your William and Richard can cut and come again, but our Robin deals with slippery subjects that come not twice to his exchequer.
What need we then to constitute a court, except a fool and a laureate?
For the fool, his only use is to make false knaves merry by art, and we are true men and are merry by nature.

For the laureate, his only office is to find virtues in those who have none, and to drink sack for his pains.

We have quite virtue enough to need him not, and can drink our sack for ourselves." "Well preached, friar," said Robin Hood: "yet there is one thing wanting to constitute a court, and that is a queen.