She had done this in
order to force Earine to give up Aeglamon, her true lover, and
marry her own wretched son Lorel.
When the play begins, Aeglamon passes over the stage mourning for
his lost love.
"Here she was wont to go! and here! and here!
Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow,
The world may find the spring by following her,
For other print her airy steps ne'er left.
Her treading would not bend a blade of grass,
Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!
But like the soft west wind she shot along,
And where she went the flowers took thickest root--
As she had sowed them with her odorous foot."
Robin Hood has left Maid Marian, Friar Tuck, Little John, and all
his merry men to hunt the deer and make ready the feast. And
Tuck says:
"And I, the chaplain, here am left to be
Steward to-day, and charge you all in fee,
To don your liveries, see the bower dressed,
And fit the fine devices for the feast."
So some make ready the bower, the tables and the seats, while
Maid Marian, Little John and others set out to hunt.
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