3-047-211 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'I Am No False Knight', 1932. '...the door was thrown open and Sir Richard of the Lea came in..."Have you brought the money?" [the abbot] demanded curtly..."I came to plead for longer time in which to pay; it is but a question of a few weeks' delay; as Heaven is merciful, I look to you for pity", replied Sir Richard...At this the abbot lost his temper and well-nigh choked himself with a piece of duck which he had just conveyed to his mouth. "Get you gone, false knight!" he shouted..."I am no false knight", replied Sir Richard, springing to his feet and dashing a bag of gold upon the table. "Here is your money", he continued, "you sneak-thief, who would hide your villainies beneath the cloak of religion".' From "Robin Hood and His Life in the Merry Greenwood", by Rose Yeatman Woolf, illustrated by Howard Davie. [Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd, London, 1932]