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Four gold coins for these?.. I know who you are. You’re Robin Hood (Laughs jumps up and down.) Here, Robin. My shoes. Everything. Wait. I don’t need everything. Pooh! And your shoes are smelly. But here you are. Four gold coins. And you can have these. (Gives him new clothes.) For me? New clothes? Four gold coins and new clothes. I feel like a new man. You are a new man. And I am now the poor beggar. Let’s go to Nottingham quickly. SCENE 5 Nottingham. A pupil stands up with a card: The market place in Nottingham. (to the crowd that is making noise). Quiet! You know the laws! These men must die. They’ve killed the King’s deer and that is against the law. And it is also a law that a Saxon must hang a Saxon. Who will come here from the crowd and hang them? Well? He looks around but nobody moves. I’ll give forty gold coins to the man who hangs them. (in the beggar’s clothes). I’ll hang them for that money. Voices. Stay where you are! You can’t do that! We’re all Saxons here. We can’t hang them. Forty gold coins for the man who hang them. Holds up the money. I’ll hang them. I’m not frightened of this crowd. Give me the money. But are you a Saxon? Of course I am. Now give me the money. Here. Forty gold coins. (The crowd boils and jeers.) And now hang them. (laughs at the crowd). What is a Saxon to me! (The crowd shouts back at him.) I’ll hang all of you. And for less money. 120
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