A fellow thou hast long sought.’
36.
36.4 ‘brown’: see Glossary of Ballad Commonplaces, First Series, p. xlix.
He that had neither been kith nor kin
Might have seen a full fair sight,
To see how together these yeomen went,
With blades both brown and bright;
37.
To have seen how these yeomen together fought
Two hours of a summer’s day;