He who calls Robin Robert of Huntingdon, or salutes him by any other title or designation whatsoever except plain Robin Hood; or who calls Marian Matilda Fitzwater, or salutes her by any other title or designation whatsoever except plain Maid Marian; and so of all others; shall for every such offence forfeit a mark, to be paid to the friar.
"And these articles we swear to keep as we are good men and true.
Carried by acclamation.

God save King Richard.
"LITTLE JOHN, Secretary." "Excellent laws," said the baron: "excellent, by the holy rood.

William of Normandy, with my great great grandfather Fierabras at his elbow, could not have made better.

And now, sweet Mawd----" "A fine, a fine," cried the friar, "a fine, by the article of courtesy." "Od's life," said the baron, "shall I not call my own daughter Mawd?
Methinks there should be a special exception in my favour." "It must not be," said Robin Hood: "our constitution admits no privilege." "But I will commute," said the friar; "for twenty marks a year duly paid into my ghostly pocket you shall call your daughter Mawd two hundred times a day." "Gramercy," said the baron, "and I agree, honest friar, when I can get twenty marks to pay: for till Prince John be beaten from Nottingham, my rents are like to prove but scanty." "I will trust," said the friar, "and thus let us ratify the stipulation; so shall our laws and your infringement run together in an amicable parallel." "But," said Little John, "this is a bad precedent, master friar.

It is turning discipline into profit, penalty into perquisite, public justice into private revenue.