Let us in, I say also."
Then up spake Will Scarlet: "I am ever ready to do what thou sayest,
uncle, yet I could wish that we were farther upon our way ere we rest
for the night. Nevertheless, if thou thinkest best, let us in for the
night, say I also."
So in they went and called for the best that the place afforded. Then a
right good feast was set before them, with two stout bottles of old sack
to wash it down withal. These things were served by as plump and buxom
a lass as you could find in all the land, so that Little John, who
always had an eye for a fair lass, even when meat and drink were by,
stuck his arms akimbo and fixed his eyes upon her, winking sweetly
whenever he saw her looking toward him. Then you should have seen how
the lass twittered with laughter, and how she looked at Little John out
of the corners of her eyes, a dimple coming in either cheek; for the
fellow had always a taking way with the womenfolk.
So the feast passed merrily, and never had that inn seen such lusty
feeders as these four stout fellows; but at last they were done their
eating, though it seemed as though they never would have ended, and sat
loitering over the sack.
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