_Trumpets sounde_, [1] _enter first King Richard with drum and auncient, giving Ely a purse and sceptre, his mother and brother John, Chester, Lester, Lacie, others at the king’s appointment, doing reverence. The king goes in: presently Ely ascends the chaire, Chester, John, and the queene part displeasantly._ [2] Enter ROBERT, EARLE OF HUNTINGTON, _leading Marian; followes him Warman, and after Warman, the prior; Warman ever flattering and making curtsie, taking gifts of the prior behinde and his master before. Prince John enters, offereth to take Marian; Queen Elinor enters, offering to pull Robin from her; but they infolde each other, and sit downe within the curteines._ [3] _Warman with the prior, Sir Hugh Lacy, Lord Sentloe, and Sir Gilbert Broghton folde hands, and drawing the curteins, all_ (_but the prior_) _enter, and are kindely received by_ Robin Hoode.” {lii} During the exhibition of the second part of the dumb show, Skelton instructs the audience as follows: “This youth that leads yon virgin by the hand Is our earle Robert, or your Robin Hoode, That in those daies was earle of Huntington; The ill-fac’t miser, brib’d in either hand, Is Warman, once the steward of his house, Who, Judas like, betraies his liberall lord, Into the hands of that relentlesse prior, Calde Gilbert Hoode, uncle to Huntington. Those two that seeke to part these lovely friends, Are Elenor the queene, and John the prince, She loves earle Robert, he maide Marian, But vainely; for their deare affect is such, As only death can sunder their true loves. Long had they lov’d, and now it is agreed, This day they must be troth-plight, after wed: At Huntington’s faire house a feast is helde, But envie turnes it to a house of teares. For those false guestes, conspiring with the prior; To whom earle Robert greatly is in debt, Meane at the banquet to betray the earle, Unto a heavie writ of outlawry: The manner and escape you all shall see. * * * * * Looke to your entrance, get you in, Sir John. My shift is long, for I play Frier Tucke; Wherein, if Skelton hath but any lucke, Heele thanke his hearers oft with many a ducke. For many talk of Robin Hood that never shot in his bowe, But Skelton writes of Robin Hood what he doth truly knowe.” After some Skeltonical rimes, and a scene betwixt the prior, the sheriff, and justice Warman, concerning the outlawry, which appears to be proclaimed, and the taking of Earl Huntington at dinner, “Enter Robin Hoode, little John following him; Robin having his napkin on his shoulder, as if hee were sodainly raised from dinner.” He is in a violent rage at being outlawed, and Little John endeavours to pacify him. Marian being distressed at his apparent disorder, he dissembles with her. After she is gone, John thus addresses him: