"Our cousin Dick is near her, I observe.

He shall see her conveyed there at once." At this moment Lady Assheton and Mrs.Nutter, with some of the other ladies, came up.
"Just in time, Nell," cried the knight.

"Have you your smelling-bottle about you?
The May Queen has fainted." "Indeed!" exclaimed Lady Assheton, springing towards Alizon, who was now sustained by young Richard Assheton; the forester having surrendered her to him.

"How has this happened ?" she inquired, giving her to breathe at a small phial.
"That I cannot tell you, cousin," replied Richard Assheton, "unless from some sudden fright." "That was it, Master Richard," cried Robin Hood; "she cried out on hearing the clashing of swords just now, and, I think, pronounced your name, on finding you engaged with Sir Thomas, and immediately after turned pale, and would have fallen if I had not caught her." "Ah, indeed!" exclaimed Lady Assheton, glancing at Richard, whose eyes fell before her inquiring gaze.

"But see, she revives," pursued the lady.