25 Out it spake her father then,
Says, Porter, let me know
If I will cause her stay at hame,
Or shall I let her go?
26 'She says her maid's sick in the wood,
And sick and like to die;
I really think she is too gude
Nor ever woud make a lie.'
27 Then he whispered in her ear,
As she was passing by,
'What will ye say if I reveal
What I saw wi my eye?'
28 'If ought ye ken about the same,
O heal that well on me,
And if I live or brook my life,
Rewarded ye shall be.'
29 Then she got leave o her father
To gude greenwood again,
And she is gane wi Brown Robyn,
But't was lang ere she came hame.
30 O then her father began to mourn,
And thus lamented he:
'O I woud gie ten thousand pounds
My daughter for to see.'
31 'If ye will promise,' the porter said,
'To do nae injury,
I will find out your daughter dear,
And them that's gane her wi.'
32 Then he did swear a solemn oath,
By a' his gowd and land,
Nae injury to them's be dune,
Whether it be maid or man.
33 The porter then a letter wrote,
And seald it wi his hand,
And sent it to that lady fair,
For to return hame.
34 When she came to her father's ha,
He received her joyfullie,
And married her to Brown Robyn;
Now a happy man was he.