These fully days is nine.
28.
‘Gang hame, gang hame, my seven bold brothers,
Gang hame and sound your horn;
An’ ye may boast in southin lan’s
Your sister’s play’d you scorn.’
BROWN ROBIN
The Text is here given from the Jamieson-Brown MS. Versions, lengthened and therefore less succinct and natural, are given in Christie’s Traditional Ballad Airs (Love Robbie) and in Buchan’s Ballads of the North of Scotland (Brown Robyn and Mally).
The Story is a genuine bit of romance. The proud porter is apparently suspicious, believing that the king’s daughter would not have made him drunk for any good purpose. In spite of that he cannot see through Brown Robin’s disguise, though the king remarks that ‘this is a sturdy dame.’ The king’s daughter, one would think, who conceals Robin’s bow in her bosom, must also have been somewhat sturdy. Note the picturesque touch in 8.2.