[125], wightye.
[195], wightye.
THE BIRTH OF ROBIN HOOD.
"The following ballad was taken down by the Editor from the recitation of Mrs. Brown, and is here given without the alteration of a single word."—Jamieson, Popular Ballads, ii. 44.
Another version of the same is printed [in the Appendix from Buchan's collections].
O Willie's large o' limb and lith,
And come o' high degree;
And he is gone to Earl Richard
To serve for meat and fee.
Earl Richard had but ae daughter,5
Fair as a lily flower;
And they made up their love-contract
Like proper paramour.
It fell upon a simmers nicht,
Whan the leaves were fair and green,10
That Willie met his gay ladie
Intil the wood alane.