Chapter 66

'slitteth anon The bely to the side, from the corbyn bone; That is corbyns fee, at the death he will be.' Jonson, in The Sad Shepherd, gives a more poetical account of the same ceremony: 'Marian. He that undoes him, Doth cleave the brisket bone, upon the spoon Of which a little gristle grows--you call it Robin Hood. The raven's bone. Marian. Now o'er head sat a raven On a sere bough, a grown, great bird, and hoarse, Who, all the while the deer was breaking up, S…