![]() When people don’t know, they imagine the worst. Not yet King, but a master of the King’s game.ĭon’t talk like that Friar! John will never be King while Richard lives. Good on the quick attack, but weak on long term strategy.īut Prince Johnny, I hear, is a champion. That’s why it’s so important for you, as a member of the Royal Family, to learn it, Marian. Therefore, the very limitations are the source of his power. The movements of all the other pieces are extensions of his will. What I still don’t understand is why the King is the most limited in his movement. However, I have found that the higher up they go the more obvious they become. He is much more subtle and flexible very useful for a surprise attack.Īs are most of the clergy. The Bishop is often considered the most valuable piece, after the Queen. The FRIAR TUCK stands over them, observing, drinking occasionally from a pig’s bladder he has strung over his shoulder.) AGATHA, the Mother Superior, and MARIAN, ward to King Richard, are seated at a table on which a chess set rests. (The great lawn of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Mists. The brush is thick, the streams are wide. ROBIN huddles under a tree, wet and shivering, while the following is sung by THE SINGER/S.) In this way you shall be bringing the Crusades home, and strengthening the body politic from those who would poison it from within. You are duty-bound to punish all who defy Our Holy Order, such as thieves, Gypsies and Jews. People of England, Our beloved children, until Our return remain loyal to John as you would be loyal to Us.Īs We now go to obey the Will of God, We call on all to obey His Will by maintaining the kingdom’s peace and order. We know that until We return John will maintain Our Holy Order through which each is in his place, each loyal to his lord, and each content. However, We are comforted in the knowledge that We leave the Kingdom in the gentle hands of Our noble brother, Prince John. It is with a heavy heart that We now leave the realm. With holy love and burning hatred We now journey to distant Jerusalem to defend the freedom of the Holy Land from tyranny of the Christ-hating Muslims. We have been called by the Lord, through His Church, to defend Christiandom and glorify the Faith. We, King Richard, must now depart Our beloved homeland. (Appearing as a huge shadow at the back of the playing area) But while there is a merry man in Robin's wily pack, we'll find a way to make him pay and steal our money back.Guards, a Priest, various puppets, shadows and extras While he taxes us to pieces and he robs us of our bread, King Richard's crown keeps slippin' down around that pointed head. Little John: Too late to be known as John the first, he's sure to be known as John the worst, a pox on that phony king of England! Then he calls for mom, while he's suckin' his thumb. Then he throws an angry tantrum if he cannot have his way. Little John: He stands alone on a giant throne, pretending he's the king a little tyke who's rather like a puppet on a string. Incredible as he is inept, whenever the history books are kept, they'll call him the Phony King of England.Įverybody: A pox on the phony king of England! While bonny good King Richard leads the great crusade he's on, we'll all have to slave away for that good for nothin' John. Little John: Oh, the world will sing of an English king 1,000 years from now, and not because he passed some laws or had that lofty brow. On the other hand, after this, the Sheriff of Nottingham and Sir Hiss are later heard singing the song until Prince John yells at them. The Phony King of England was a song featured in Robin Hood, and the song itself mocks Prince John, however it wasn't sung by Prince John.
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