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. ARTHUR (CONT'D)And whoa there! Well done. Hello?

(ARTHUR reins in the "horse" and surveys the Castle.

A GUARD appears through a window of the castle wall)

ROBINHello?! Who goes there?

#3 King Arthur's Song

ARTHURI AM ARTHUR KING OF THE BRITONSLORD AND RULER OF ALLOF ENGLAND, AND SCOTLANDAND EVEN TINY LITTLE BITS OF GAUL

ROBINAnd I'm the Emperor ofNorway. Bugger off.

PATSYHE IS ARTHUR KING OF THE BRITONSAND WE ARE OUT SEEKING MENVERY STRONG MENAND VERY ABLE

ARTHURTO SIT AROUND OUR VERY, VERY ROUND TABLE

ROBINWhat is it you want?

ARTHURI am looking for men.

ROBINI had a feeling.

ARTHURWe have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights to join me in my court atCamelot. I must speak with your lord and master.

ROBINWhat, ridden on a horse?

ARTHURYes!

ROBINYou're using coconuts!

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ARTHURWhat?

ROBINYou've got two empty halves of coconut and you're banging them together.

ARTHURSo? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom ofMercia,through...

ROBINWhere'd you get the coconut?

ARTHURWe found them.

ROBINFound them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical!

ARTHURWhat do you mean?

ROBINWell, this is a temperate zone.

ARTHURThe swallow may ysouth with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmerclimes in winter yet these are not strangers to our land.

ROBINAre you suggesting coconuts migrate?

ARTHURNot at all, they could be carried.

ROBINWhat? A swallow carrying a coconut?

ARTHURIt could grip it by the husk!

ROBINIt's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A veounce birdcould not carry a one pound coconut.

ARTHURWell, it doesn't matter. Will you tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here?

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. ROBINListen, in order to maintain air—speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings 43 times everysecond, right?

ARTHURPlease!

ROBINAm I right?

ARTHURI'm not interested!

(LANCE appears at the opposite window)

LANCEIt could be carried by an African swallow!

ROBINOh, yeah, an African swallow, maybe, but not a European swallow, that's my point.

LANCEOh, yeah, I agree with that... Beautiful bird, the African swallow. Lovely plumage.

ROBINThe plumage don't enter into it. And besides, African swallows are non-migratory.

LANCEOh, yeah

ROBINSo they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway...

ARTHURWill you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?

LANCEWait a minute, supposing two swallows carried it together?

ROBINNo, they'd have to have it on a line.

LANCEWell, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper!

ROBINWhat, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?

(ARTHUR, despairing of any further sensible conversationgallops off left with PATSY)

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