"But I cannot be married without my father's blessing," sobbed Ellen, for she was ever an obedient daughter.
"There, there, don't cry," said Robin Hood gently. "I will get your father's blessing." Then he called to Will Stutely.
"Give me the two bags of gold I bade you bring." He strode up to Ellen's father with a bag of gold in each hand.
"Here are two hundred golden angels," he said. "If you give your daughter your blessing on this her wedding day, I will give you these as her dower. If you give her not the blessing, she shall be married just the same, but not a cracked farthing shalt thou have."
The father looked at the gold and then at Robin Hood. He knew the knight was gone and would not come back.
"Well," he said, but not happily, "I will give her my blessing."
So the wedding went on; and after it was over they went to Sherwood Forest and held the merriest feast that ever was held in that merry place. And Allen-a-Dale and his bride lived happy all the rest of their lives, and he sang such beautiful songs that his fame went all over England. As for Friar Tuck, he liked Robin Hood and his band so much that he never went back to Fountain Dale but became one of Robin Hood's merry men.