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 Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of 
yourself.
 [Lat., Quid rides?]
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 Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of 
yourself.
 [Lat., Quid rides?]
  Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.] 
Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale.
Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale.
 I hate
 To tell again a tale once fully told.  
 I hate
 To tell again a tale once fully told. 
This story will never go down.
This story will never go down.
 At this point therefore let us begin our narrative, without 
adding any more to what has already been said; read more 
 At this point therefore let us begin our narrative, without 
adding any more to what has already been said; for it would be 
foolish to lengthen the preface while cutting short the history 
itself. 
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
 In this spacious isle I think there is not one
 But he hath heard some talk of Hood and read more 
 In this spacious isle I think there is not one
 But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John,
  Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many a sermon made
   In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws, and their trade. 
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.