He was domiciled as the family confessor of the earl and
countess of Huntingdon, who led a discreet and courtly life,
and kept up old hospitality in all its munificence,
till the death of King Richard and the usurpation of John,
by placing their enemy in power, compelled them to return to
their greenwood sovereignty; which, it is probable, they would
have before done from choice, if their love of sylvan liberty
had not been counteracted by their desire to retain the friendship
of Coeur-de-Lion. Their old and tried adherents, the friar
among the foremost, flocked again round their forest-banner;
and in merry Sherwood they long lived together, the lady still
retaining her former name of Maid Marian, though the appellation
was then as much a misnomer as that of Little John.
THE END.
VARIANTS IN THE TEXT
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P. 15, ll. 12-13. and the bishops: and bishops 1822.
P. 46, l. 12. united: re-united 1822.
P. 63, l. 14. a posse of men: fifty men 1822.
P. 74, l. 6. privation: imprisonment and privation 1822.
P. 80, l. 29. tone: toll 1822.
P. 153, ll. 21-23. daily of bad wine . . . more fastidious relish:
every day I grow more intolerant of bad, and have a keener and more
fastidious relish of good wine 1822.
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