Ivanhoe by Walter Scott — Read

First Outlaw / Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about you; / If not, we'll make you sit, and rifle you. / Speed / Sir, we are undone! these are the villains / That all the travellers do fear so much. / Valentine / My friends -- / First Outlaw / That's not so, sir, we are your enemies. / Second Outlaw / Peace! we'll hear him. / Third Outlaw / Ay, by my beard, will we; / For he's a proper man. / - Two Gentlemen of Verona

The nocturnal adventures of Gurth were not yet concluded; indeed he himself became partly of that mind, when, after passing one or two straggling houses which stood in the outskirts of the village, he found himself in a deep lane, running between two banks overgrown with hazel and holly, while here and there a dwarf oak flung its arms altogether across the path. The lane was moreover much rutted and broken up by the carriages which had recently transported articles of various kinds to the tournament; and it was dark, for the banks and bushes intercepted the light of the harvest moon.