27 His daughter he buried in gude church-yard,
All in a mournful mood,
And brought the boy to church that day,
And christend him Robin Hood.
28 This boy was bred in the earl's ha
Till he became a man,
But loved to hunt in gude greenwood,
To raise his noble fame.
C
Kinloch MSS, V, 330 f, the last two stanzas of 'Douglass Dale.'
1 Mony ane speaks o grass, o grass,
And mony mare o corn,
And mony ane sings o Robin Heed
Kens little whare he was born.
2 He was born in good green wood,
At the fut o yon olive tree;
His father was a knight's ae son,
And his mother a lady free.
B.
Christie says of his copy that the words sung by his maternal grandfather "were somewhat, as far as the Editor can remember, like those given by Buchan, and that some slight alterations were made by him from the way the Editor heard the ballad sung."
The alterations in Christie's eighteen stanzas are: