ACT III
Scene I. May-day. An open place (near Nottingham). A crowd of rustics and townsfolk assembling to see the execution of Will Scarlet.
FIRST RUSTIC
A sad may-day! Where yonder gallows glowers,
We should have raised the may-pole.
SECOND RUSTIC
Ay, no songs,
No kisses in the ring, no country dances
To-day; no lads and lasses on the green,
Crowning their queen of may.
[Enter Robin Hood, disguised as an old beggar, with a green patch on one eye.]
ROBIN
Is this the place,
Masters, where they're a-goin' to hang Will Scarlet?