Under the greenwood lynd;

He robbëd me once of a hundred pound,

It shall never out of my mind.’

24.

24.2 ‘radly,’ quickly: ‘yare,’ ready.

24.3 See notes 8.1, 23.1.

Up then rose this proud sheriff,

And radly made him yare;

Many was the mother son,

To the kirk with him can fare.