"Give him his sword and let him come on again." "No, no," said Nicholas, "he has had enough this time.

And if he has not, he must settle an account with me.

Put up your blade, lad." "I'll be revenged upon you both," said Sir Thomas, taking his sword, which had been brought him by a bystander, and stalking away.
"You leave us in mortal dread, doughty knight," cried Nicholas, shouting after him, derisively--"ha! ha! ha!" Richard Assheton's attention was, however, turned in a different direction, for the music suddenly ceasing, and the dancers stopping, he learnt that the May Queen had fainted, and presently afterwards the crowd opened to give passage to Robin Hood, who bore her inanimate form in his arms..