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Maid Marian

CHAPTER XVI
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But you are welcome to laugh if it so please you.

None shall laugh in my company, though it be at my expense, but I will have my share of the merriment.

The world is a stage, and life is a farce, and he that laughs most has most profit of the performance.

The worst thing is good enough to be laughed at, though it be good for nothing else; and the best thing, though it be good for something else, is good for nothing better." And he struck up a song in praise of laughing and quaffing, without further adverting to Marian's insinuated accusation; being, perhaps, of opinion, that it was a subject on which the least said would be the soonest mended.
So passed the night.

In the morning a forester came to the friar, with intelligence that Prince John had been compelled, by the urgency of his affairs in other quarters, to disembarrass Nottingham Castle of his royal presence.


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