Robin Goodfellow

How is the character Robin Goodfellow known in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream?

These are Frusta ("The Scourge"), caustic criticizer of man and universe, and the dandyish Duca, a latter-day Robin Goodfellow of Shakespearean fame ("Lord, what fools these mortals be!").

Robin Goodfellow, 66, chairman of the Blackberry Carnival in Axbridge, Somerset, said: "We had to decide which would offend people least - including David.

There are plenty of Robins and Hoods in the history books but the story may also include another element in the shape of Robin Goodfellow - the primitive spirit of the forest with roots reaching back to a time of pagan gods.

Also trailing in his wake among the London-based papers were The Scout of the Daily Express, the Daily Mail's Robin Goodfellow, Rob Wright of the Times and Richard Evans of the Telegraph.

Curley telephoned the leading jockey to quiz him about the ride he had given Robin Goodfellow, a beaten favourite over hurdles at Ascot in November, 1986.

Diana became the Queen of the May and Herne become Robin Goodfellow (later Robin Hood), or the Green Man.

Either I mistake your shape and making quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he That frights the maidens of the villagery.

In the memoirs of the London Bohemians of the 1930s, indeed, Dylan (Thomas) did wander on and off like a Robin Goodfellow. To the poet George Barker, he was "small and thin, with a dirty wool scarf wound round himself like an old love affair, looking like a runaway schoolboy".

Robin Goodfellow (6.45) was no match for Dim Ots at Kempton but may have been drawn on the "wrong" side that day and deserves another chance under Pat Eddery.