Maid Marian Lines for Sherwood: Adventures of Robin Hood

Robin: I can't imagine what took us so long.

Robin?!

Robin: Marian!

Where have you been?

Robin: Working.

On what?

Robin: All right, mace and chain!

Would you stop it!

Robin: ...My father says its from being a Norman

Oh, please. You're the one with all the talent, but you just don't use it.

Robin: I'm such a dolt. I wouldn't hurt you for the world.

My father says that boys between the ages of fourteen and twenty three should be locked away because they aren't good for anything but fighting, stealing and being rude to their elders.

Robin: Don't forget drinking

You do know that you'll inherit this entire estate someday, so you have to start taking things seriously.

Robin: ...do you ever think about reproduction Marian?

You mean country matters?

Robin: ...but I can't believe they're any good at it.

Robin, listen. You're probably wondering why I'm all dressed up like this.

Robin: ... and Cresswell Green-

Robin-

Robin: Okay, bye.

Robin!

Robin: I mean have a good time. Enjoy yourself.

Won't you miss me?

Friar Tuck: I'm not surprised

Robin, they say you're causing nothing but trouble here in the shire. They say you're breaking the laws and stealing property. They say you're an outlaw.

Robin: ... Their families date back to the Conqueror.

Uncle John calls you a common thief. He says that the foresters hate you now and that you're stealing gold from anyone who passes through Sherwood.

Robin: Marian. Wait.

I-I shouldn't have come. It's disloyal to the Prince. But is what you say true?

Friar Tuck: Just let me near'em, Lord, that's all I ask.

We have to get the children out as quick as we can. The rest can follow.

Sir Guy: I should have known. Marian, he's mad.

He isn't mad. He's trying to save his people.

Sir Guy: You mean the rabble who are out to destroy our country?

That isn't true! Have you seen the suffering of these people, Guy? There are families up there. And innocent children.

Sir Guy: Oh no you're not.

Don't touch me! I'm going back inside with Robin. At least then you won't burn it down!

Robin: That's an understatement.

Lady Marian sent me with a message for you, sir. She says she'll see you at the tournament.

Robin: ... And yet it's funny that all that beauty was there inside her and I never saw it.

Are you in love with her, sir?

Robin: MARIAN! What are you doing?!

Competing in the tournament. It's only men, remember? God forbid a woman beats them. Besides, I'm a better archer than you are, so I can win it for us.

Robin: Would you like to compete right now?

Heart-shaped knot in a tree. A hundred yards, I believe that's dead center.

Robin: Oh stop it.

Spread them! Head back... farther... farther... Now here's the trick. Breathe only through your nose.

Robin: This is ridiculous.

Nose. Now look at the head of the arrow, then down the shaft, and think about where it's going.

Robin: Of course it is!

You told her not to go.

Robin: But I backed down! I thought it was a game, a little sport to keep us busy and feed out vanity.

You couldn't have known that she'd attack Prince John.

Robin: Because there's no time! They could execute her by tomorrow morning!

And they'll execute you the minute they get hold of you.

Robin: I have only one, your Grace. The hand of your ward Marian in marriage. If she'll have me.

Oh, I will take you out of pity, I suppose. But I want to be married under the brightest star in the heavens. Look you, there in the sky. It's Venus.

Robin: Peace. I will stop your mouth with a kiss. Robin of Locksley and Marian Fitzwalter were married with great ceremony in the sun-soaked, deeply-dappled greenwood of Sherwood forest on the first of May, 1194.

And Deorwynn Miller and John Little were married the same day, standing proudly next to them.

Robin: Am I? I try so hard to be serious.

Robin -?

Robin: Marian.

Sorry. But I need to tell you something and it's important.

Robin: Oh it can't be that important. Let's play Saxons and Normans.

Not now.

Robin: Quarterstaff! Ha!

Ow!

Robin: ...did it break the skin?

OW!

Robin: ... you have everything.

Oh stop it. It's a traveling cloak. I'm going away.

Robin: I want to hunt them through the park and the woods-

Robin, listen! I'm going away. For three years. To Aquitaine. My father insists.

Robin: And there ya be. I was practicing to stay cheerful and I didn't even know I had to yet. -- Marian!

Goodbye!

Robin: She's my sister!

Ha!

Robin: Marian!

Hello, Robin

Robin: ... Answer me in one word!

I would need the mouths of every woman you've ever kissed to do that.

Robin: You embarrass me.

Do I? Good. When we were young, he had eyes for every girl in the the shire but me.

Robin: I must have been {Deorwynn snaps a twig}

Hello. Are you all right?

Robin: ...This is lady Marian Fitzwalter.

It's a pleasure.

Robin: ... One just gave me a beating and the other threatened to.

I like them both already.

Robin: Marian and I grew up on neighboring estates but she was snatched away by her parents.

They thought he'd corrupt me.

Little John: And did he?

Just a little.

Robin: And how were your travels?

Brave, Robin. The world is filled with wonder and delight. I studied music, mathematics, philosophy-

{shoot gaspar}

- And combat.

Little John: ... Robin here is facing down the authorities and the people love him for it.

They tell a different story at the castle

Little John: He is!

Well it's nothing to be proud of. There's a price on his head!

Robin: You don't understand

Apparently not, but I've been asked to speak to you about it.

Robin: By whom?

By my uncle, Prince John.

Robin: Do you believe it?

The Prince of the Realm wouldn't lie about it.

Deorwynn: ... and they did it to put money into their own pockets because they're cowards.

That's treason you know.

Deorwynn: It's the truth! Tell her!

I think you'll find that Prince John is misunderstood. And Robin, he'd like to meet with you. He's coming to Nottingham next month for the celebrations.

Robin: What is He celebrating? A new hanging?

No, it's a wedding.

Robin: Whose?

Mine. I'm sorry. It will seal the alliance between the north and south, and my family feels that ... it's what I was raised for.

Robin: ... Who are you marring The prince himself?

The Prince is my uncle!

Robin: By marriage. It is allowed.

Well I'm not!

Robin: Who is it then?

You won't know him. But you will like him. He's a Norman who's in charge of administration for this part of the shire. And he's young and up and coming and some day could have the whole north of England under him. His name is Guy of Gisbourne.

Sir Guy: Good God.

Guy. I'd like you to meet some friends of mine. This is Robin of Locksley, John Little, Friar Tuck and ... A friend of theirs.

Robin: {to guy} Hello.

Well, that went well. Shall we go inside? It's feeling chilly out here. ... Robin.

Prince John: ... Have you set a date yet?

Not yet Sire. We need more time.

Sir Guy: ... their lies make her nervous.

You do me an injustice. I keep an open mind and listen to the people. They have a great deal to say.

Sir Guy: And I wonder, is that quite feminine?

Feminine?! The Prince's mother is Eleanor of Aquitaine, who has ruled two continents and done battle with the Pope! Do you think that she's been asked if she's feminine?

Prince John: ... This above all: to thine own self be true. Ooo, that's perfect. Write that one down.

As you can tell, Sire, Sir Guy and I have some disagreements.

Sir Guy: He flaunted the law right in front of me.

Yes, I keep hearing worrisome things about him from all the Normans. It's just that - when we were children, he had a good heart, and I don't understand what's happened to him.

Sir Guy: He's a lawbreaker, Marian. A thief.

Robin

Sir Guy: Yes, Robin of Locksley. We know his name.

No it's Robin. He's here.

Sheriff: What?

What?

Prince John: Accident in London. Shame. Died instantly.

But that means that you're -

Robin: Marian, I want you to come with me.

I won't

Robin: Don't you see what they're doing?

They're upholding the law.

Robin: The laws they pass for their own benefit.

But when Kind Richard returns-

Robin: ... I'm going to speak to the people and we can talk afterwards.

Robin, you're just making trouble.

Robin: That's odd. I thought I was saving England.

Robin -

Robin: Just slip away. Good-bye until then.

You're leaving?

Robin: Get back! Make a single move and I cut his throat.

Robin!

Robin: It is Marian. I swear it. I can prove it to you.

How?

Robin: ... Which is empty at the moment, thanks to Sir Guy and the Sheriff stealing it from me.

No I-I should get back. They'll miss me.

Robin: No, wait. Are you afraid of the truth?

I'm afraid of nothing.

Robin: ... That's what your friends are trying to destroy, but they won't succeed.

I do begin to see it now.

Robin: I've been thinking. Shall we be partners, Marian?

I beg your pardon?

Robin: In the dance, my darling. I'm asking you to dance

Well of course you are.

Deorwynn: They're surrounding the castle!

Who?

Deorwynn: Sir Guy and the Sheriff and about a hundred men are surrounding the castle and they all have torches.

This can't be true-

Robin: I grew up in this house, remember?

The tunnel!

Sir Guy: Marian! What are you doing here?! I thought you were at Nottingham.

I was but I...I came to see Robin.

Sir Guy: And robbers and thieves! We have laws, Marian! Laws to keep order!

And we need compassion to go with them.

Sir Guy: You're taking his side aren't you?

I'm not taking anyone's side except the children's. You wouldn't hurt them-?

Sir Guy: Send Locksley down to give himself up and we'll talk about it.

And you'd let them go?

Sir Guy: I said we'd talk about it!

... All right, I'll tell him.

Sir Guy: No! Stop! I'll send someone else.

I'm going.

Sir Guy: I wouldn't be so sure. Light the Arrows!

Are the children out?

Friar Tuck: Yes.

And their parents?

Frair Tuck: Maybe you should go down and talk to that succubus.

Robin, no! He'll kill you on the spot.

Robin: Would you miss me?

Don't be ridiculous.

Robin: Windows! Quickly!

We can't hold them!

Little John: We know what to do. Got him!

Got him!