Then you must mask
And fetch her thence! Ah, ha, the bar works loose.
Pull it!
[They pull at the bar, get it free, and throw it into the cell.]
Now, master, follow me down the rope.
[Exit Robin thro' the window.]
Scene IV. Night. The garden of the King's palace (as before), but lighted with torches for the masque. Music swells up and dies away continually. Maskers pass to and fro between the palace and the garden. On the broad terrace in front some of them are dancing a galliard.
[Prince John enters and is met by Queen Elinor, neither of them masked.]
ELINOR
All safe?
PRINCE JOHN
Ay, buried and bricked up now, to think
Alone, in the black night, of all I told him.
Thank God, we have heard the last of Robin Hood.