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"Robin of Sherwood" Adam Bell (1986)

Robert de Rainault: Ninety nine, one hundred gold marks exactly.
Sir Guy of Gisburne: I did count it, my lord.
Robert de Rainault: I know, Gisburne, but one can never be too sure.
Sir Guy of Gisburne: My lord, are you questioning my...
Robert de Rainault: Your honour? No, no, just your ability to count.

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Robert de Rainault: What are you snickering about, Gisburne? Are you laughing at me?
Sir Guy of Gisburne: No, My Lord, but I thought...
Robert de Rainault: That's the trouble, Gisburne - You thought. You never think!

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Lady Isabel: Edward was everything that you aren't!
Robert de Rainault: He still is: He's dead.

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Robert de Rainault: I told him there were two ways you can win - luck and cunning. But of course there's a third...
Sir Guy of Gisburne: A third?
Robert de Rainault: Yes. You can cheat.

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Robert de Rainault: [Guards bring in the captive Much] Spotted by chance, but caught, I think, by cunning. Luck and cunning, both part of the game.
Robert de Rainault: This man is called Much. He's one of Robin Hood's men. Alone, he's valueless. A simpleton. But even then, with a little cunning, some use could be found for him.
Robert de Rainault: You're eleven tomorrow?
Martin: Yes, uncle.
Robert de Rainault: Have you ever seen anyone hanged?
Martin: No.
Robert de Rainault: Would you like to?
Martin: Yes, uncle.
Robert de Rainault: Well there you are, you see. And I was wondering what to get you for a birthday present.
Robert de Rainault: We'll hang him tomorrow afternoon.

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Robert de Rainault: Have I ever spoken to you about my younger brother, Edward?
Sir Guy of Gisburne: No.
Robert de Rainault: Even when he was young he was different from me: honest, trusting, generous. Naturaly I despised him.
Sir Guy of Gisburne: Naturaly.

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Robert de Rainault: So Wolfshead, you came.
Robert of Huntingdon: What do you want?
Robert de Rainault: Your help.
Robert of Huntingdon: You ask for my help?
Robert de Rainault: I don't ask. I demand. And you for once will obey.

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Robert de Rainault: So, you'll do it?
Robert of Huntingdon: Do I have any choice?
Robert de Rainault: No. Your half-wit for my brat. The exchange will be made here two days from now at sunset, do you understand?
Robert of Huntingdon: Yes.
Robert de Rainault: Good.
Robert de Rainault: [the Sheriff rides off] Don't fail me Wolfshead, I want the boy alive.

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Lady Isabel: Martin was a kind, gently boy once. Now I hardly recognise him. He doesn't laugh anymore, except at things that would make an ordinary boy sick. He's a bully, a tyrant, just like his favourite uncle.
Robert de Rainault: Oh you flatter me.

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Lady Isabel: [At the tomb of her late husband] Oh Edward, you put your trust in a snake and the snake has bitten into you. Poison runs deep in our son's veins.

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