The Banquet

  When Ivanhoe reached the King the fighting was done.  Ivanhoe told the King that he shouldn't have fought because he could have been killed.  The King just shrugged and told Ivanhoe not to worry.  The King was hungry and he asked if Robin Hood had any food.  Robin Hood replied that he did and he then invited the King to have a feast with him and his men.  Previously Robin's men had been shy and reverent to the King, but now as they were eating they were boisterous and merry.  This familiarity between the King and the outlaws made Robin and Ivanhoe nervous so they resolved to break up the feast.  They wanted to break up the feast because they didn't want one of the men to say something to the King that angered him because the King could do some serious damage to whosoever he pleased.  So Robin called one of his men to him and told him to blow a horn the way the Normans did.  The man did, which made all the men eating and merry making stop what they were doing and draw their weapons including the King.  Robin then went up to the Richard and asked his forgiveness because he had tricked him.  Richard gave it and then they got ready to leave.