The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

In the Prologue, Robin encounters the King’s foresters, men charged to protect his lands and to prevent poaching. What details (appearance, actions, words, attitudes) does Pyle use to depict the foresters negatively?

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Fifteen there were in all, making themselves merry with feasting and drinking as they sat around a huge pasty, to which each man helped himself, thrusting his hands into the pie, and washing down that which they ate with great horns of ale which they drew all foaming from a barrel that stood nigh. Each man was clad in Lincoln green, and a fine show they made, seated upon the sward beneath that fair, spreading tree. Then one of them, with his mouth full, called out to Robin, "Hulloa, where goest thou, little lad, with thy one-penny bow and thy farthing shafts?"

Then all the foresters were filled with rage, and he who had spoken the first and had lost the wager was more angry than all.