 | Hugh Latimer (bp. of Worcester.) - 1758 - 568 pages
...more ; at laft the key was found, and one of the parifh comes to me and faid : Sir, this is a bufy day with us, we cannot hear you; it is Robin Hood's day. The parifh are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood : I pray you hinder them not. I was fain there to give... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Wild flowers - 1799 - 200 pages
...half an houre or more, and at last, the key was found ; one of the parish came to me and says, ' Syr, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you; it...are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not.' So," as the good bishop observes, " he was fain to give place to Robin Hood, and his... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1809 - 546 pages
...When I came there, the church-door was fast locked. I tarried there half an hour and more: at last, one of the parish comes to me, and says, Sir, this...gather for Robin Hood: I pray you hinder them not. And so I was fain to give place to Robin Hood. And all this cometh of unpreaching prelates: if the... | |
 | 1853 - 640 pages
...found. One of the parish came to me, and says, ' Syr, this is a busie day with us ; we cannot heare you : it is Robin Hood's day. The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let' (hinder) 'them not.' So I was fain to give place unto Robin Hood and his men." We have spoken... | |
 | Hugh Latimer - Sermons, English - 1824 - 478 pages
...church door was fast locked. I tarried there half an hour and more; at last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says, " Sir, this...are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood: I pray you let them not." I was fain there to give place to Robin Hood: I thought my rochet should have been regarded,... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1824 - 294 pages
...thought I should have found 4 great company, the door was fast locked. I tarried half an hour. At last one of the parish comes to me, and says, « Sir, this...cannot hear you : it is Robin Hood's day : the parish is gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood; I pray you hinder them not.' So I was fain to give place to... | |
 | Augustin Thierry - Great Britain - 1825 - 574 pages
...last the key was found, and one of the parishioners comes to me and sayes : ' Syr, this is a busye day with us ; we cannot hear you ; it is Robin Hood's...the parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood '.' " The bishop had clothed himself in his ecclesiastical habit ; he was obliged to take it off, and... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1830 - 280 pages
...thought I should have found a great company, the door was fast locked. I tarried half an hour. At last one of the parish comes to me, and says, ' Sir, this...cannot hear you: it is Robin Hood's day: the parish is gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood ; I pray you hinder them not.' So I was fain to give place... | |
 | Hugh Latimer - Sermons, English - 1832 - 372 pages
...church door was fast locked. I tarried there half an hour and more ; at last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says, " Sir, this...gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood : I pray you let them not." I was fain there to give place to Robin Hood. I thought my rochet should have been regarded,... | |
 | English literature - 1832 - 352 pages
...church door was fast locked. I tarried there half an hour and more ; at last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says, " Sir, this...gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood : I pray you let them not." I was fain there to give place to Robin Hood. I thought my rochet should have been regarded,... | |
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At last the key was found, and one of the parish comes to me and says, "Sir, this is a busy day with us. We cannot hear you; it is Robin Hood's Day."' The parish are gone abroad to gather for Robin Hood. I pray you let them not. 
