Fie upon you, Robin, you did not know me. ROBIN [_Embracing her._] Oh, you seemed Ten thousand miles away. This is not moonlight, And I am not Endymion. Could I dream My Dian would come wandering through the fern Before the sunset? Even that rose your face You muffled in its own green leaves. MARIAN But you, Were hidden in the heart of Sherwood, Robin, Hidden behind a million mighty boughs, And yet I found you. ROBIN Ay, the young moon stole In pity down to her poor shepherd boy; But he could never climb the fleecy clouds Up to her throne, never could print one kiss On her immortal lips. He lay asleep Among the poppies and the crags of Latmos, And she came down to him, his queen stole down. MARIAN Oh, Robin, first a rose and then a moon, A rose that breaks at a breath and falls to your feet, The fickle moon--Oh, hide me from the world; For there they say love goes by the same law! Let me be outlawed then. I cannot change. Sweetheart, sweetheart, Prince John will hunt me down! Prince John--Queen Elinor will hunt me down! ROBIN Queen Elinor! Nay, but tell me what this means? How came you here? MARIAN The Queen--she came last night, Made it an odious kind of praise to me That he, not three months wedded to his bride, Should--pah! And then she said five hundred men Were watching round the borders of the wood; But she herself would take me safely through them, Said that I should be safer here with Robin, She had your name so pat--and I gave way. [_Enter QUEEN ELINOR behind. She conceals herself to listen._] ROBIN Marian, she might have trapped you to Prince John. MARIAN No; no; I think she wanted me to guide her Here to your hiding place. She wished to see you Herself, unknown to John, I know not why. It was my only way. Her skilful tongue Quite won my father over, made him think, Poor father, clinging to his lands again, He yet might save them. And so, without ado (It will be greatly to the joy of Much, Your funny little man), I bade my maid Jenny, go pack her small belongings up This morning, and to follow with Friar Tuck And Widow Scarlet. They'll be here anon. ROBIN Where did you leave the Queen? MARIAN