- [first lines]
- Soldier: Milord...
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Yes?
- Soldier: The tax collectors.
- Sheriff of Nottingham: Send them in.
- Sheriff of Nottingham: [to the collectors] Well, what sort of day have you had? Productive, I trust.
- 1st Tax Collector: I only wish your trust was better placed, milord. It's getting harder than ever to get the taxes out of them.
- Robin Hood: There's an old motto King Richard used to quote - "Let your wits be sharper than your enemy's sword."
- Little John: You alone, Robin? That's too great a risk.
- Robin Hood: We're never alone as long as we have friends among the people.
- Friar Tuck: It's a strange piece of logic, Robin Hood, to rescue a prisoner by becoming one yourself.
- Robin Hood: It's a strange piece of logic, Friar Tuck, to reform the sinners in a tavern by becoming one yourself.
- Little John: How do we know you will keep your promise?
- Sheriff of Nottingham: My word as a Norman gentleman!
- Little John: Nothing but that?
- Minstrel: [singing] Poor Will Stukely cannot pay / And into prison he is cast / The Sheriff is the very one / Who turns him free at last