`` And now haste ye , boys , '' the man continued . `` There is work toward . A handful of archers are but now come to the ferry ; murrey and blue is their wear ; they are our butts -- they shall all taste arrows -- no man of them shall struggle through this wood . For , lads , we are here some fifty strong , each man of us most foully wronged ; for some they have lost lands , and some friends ; and some they have been outlawed -- all oppressed ! Who , then , hath done this evil ? Sir Daniel , by the rood ! Shall he then profit ? shall he sit snug in our houses ? shall he till our fields ? shall he suck the bone he robbed us of ? I trow not . He getteth him strength at law ; he gaineth cases ; nay , there is one case he shall not gain -- I have a writ here at my belt that , please the saints , shall conquer him . '' Lawless the cook was by this time already at his second horn of ale . He raised it , as if to pledge the speaker . `` Master Ellis , '' he said , `` y ' are for vengeance -- well it becometh you ! -- but your poor brother o ' the greenwood , that had never lands to lose nor friends to think upon , looketh rather , for his poor part , to the profit of the thing . He had liever a gold noble and a pottle of canary wine than all the vengeances in purgatory . '' `` Lawless , '' replied the other , `` to reach the Moat House , Sir Daniel must pass the forest . We shall make that passage dearer , pardy , than any battle . Then , when he hath got to earth with such ragged handful as escapeth us -- all his great friends fallen and fled away , and none to give him aid -- we shall beleaguer that old fox about , and great shall be the fall of him .
'T is a fat buck ; he will XXXXX a dinner for us all . ''
conquer continued getteth lose lost make profit reach struggle wronged