Robin Hood

Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘Robin Hood’

In The Copybook

1

Paulus Hector Mair (1517-1579)

Robin Recruits a Merry Man by Anonymous

It was George-a-Green’s job to stop animals trampling the crops, and it nettled his pride in Wakefield’s broad acres to see some ramblers behaving no better.

Read

2

By Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/1498–1543), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

Jane Seymour by Thomas Fuller

It was a bitter moment for Anne Boleyn when she saw that what she herself had done to poor Catherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour was about to do to her.

Read

3

© Richard Croft, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

A Prince Among Thieves by John Major

In the days of Henry VIII, eminent Scottish historian John Major looked back to the reign of Richard the Lionheart and sketched the character of legendary outlaw Robin Hood.

Read

4

By Marjorie Acker Phillips (1895-1985), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.5.

Henry Goes a-Maying by John Stow

King Henry VIII was riding out with Queen Catherine one May Day, when they found themselves waylaid by Robin Hood and two hundred archers.

Read

5

© Jonathan Cardy, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0.

The Blessing of Disguise by Sir Walter Scott

A mysterious knight and an equally mysterious outlaw agree to preserve one another’s incognito.

Read

6

© Richard Croft, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.

Robin Hood and the Debt of Honour by Clay Lane

The outlaw showed that strange as it may be, he did have a code of honour.

Read

Clay Lane The Copybook
About Clay Lane nicholas@claylane.uk

© Nicholas Armitage / Clay Lane, 2025

April 19 NS

April 6 OS

Will Adams : An Elizabethan mariner reaches Japan under terrible hardships, only to find himself under sentence of death at the hands of his fellow Europeans.
Our Songs Confess Thee Sovereign Lord : A hymn for the vigil of Easter, recalling Christ’s descent into the abode of the dead and his triumphant return.
Brightest Beacon : Christ’s cross promises to take away the fear of Judgment Day.
A Collect for Easter Day : A short prayer from the Book of Common Prayer, for the day of Christ’s resurrection.
The Gambler : Which well-known expression is Dr Johnson talking about here?
If I Had But Two Little Wings : Samuel Taylor Coleridge holds on to those precious moments when loneliness is a problem for tomorrow.
Red Eye : Reconstruct the speaker’s original words from these reports.
Responsible : Combine each group of ideas into a single sentence, in as many ways as you can.
Opposites : Suggest words that seem opposite in meaning to the words in this list.
Three of a Kind : For each of these things, think of three different varieties of it.
The Son of God Goes Forth to War : A hymn in praise of St Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
Peace Plan : Report this brief exchange between Anna and M. Pierre and Tolstoy’s War and Peace
Metaphors : Choose one of these words and use it metaphorically, not literally.
The Marks of a Tyrant : Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle explains what it is that defines a tyranny.
Scrambled : Rewrite these sentences so that they do not use the word ‘and’.
Latest

Clay Lane Home

Search

Blog

The Copybook

Think and Speak

Comfortable Words

Word Games

Featured Authors

Featured Subjects

Search The Copybook

About Clay Lane

Close Menu