in Robin Hood (Robin Hood and the Friar) (Robin Hood and the Potter) — Anonymous
Metadata
Play
Robin Hood (Robin Hood and the Friar) (Robin Hood and the Potter)
Author
Anonymous
Year (catalogued)
1590
First performance
1560
Decade
1590s
Genre
Folk Romance
Play type
Interlude
Speech prefix(es)
Little Iohn | Little Iohn.
Words
169
Characters
790
Typicality
0.23 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP id
A03571.1
BritDrama no.
331
Cluster
Cluster 6 — Battlefield messengers & soldiers
Important excerpts
No keyword-matching excerpt could be extracted (the cluster label doesn't share vocabulary with this character's speech).
Full speech
Not I master for twenty pound ready told For there is not amongst us all one that dare meddle with that potter man for man I felt his hands not long agon but I had lever be here by thee, therefore I know what he is Meet him when you will or meet him when you shall, He is as proper a man as ever you meddled withal I consent thereto so I eat bred, If he pay passage maugre his head twenty pound shall you have for your meed. Here master I make avow I told you master so God me save, that you should find the potter a knave: Hold your buckler fast in your hand, and I will stiffly by you stand, Ready for to fight, Be the knave never so stout I shall rap him on the snout, and put him to flight. Yes Master I make God avow to that Friar will I go, And bring him to you whither he will or no,
Plot summary
Plot — Robin Hood (Robin Hood and the Friar) (Robin Hood and the Potter)
Robin Hood. meets a Friar who robbed him the previous day, and they fight, the loser to carry the other over the water. The Friar loses and joins Robin. Robin bets Little John that he will be able to make an arrogant potter pay a toll. He provokes the potter by smashing his pots and calling him a cuckold. The surviving text breaks off as they are about to fight.