BALLAD.
Alice Brand.
Merry it is in the good greenwood,
When the mavis[241] and merle[242] are singing,
When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry,
And the hunter’s horn is ringing.
“O Alice Brand, my native land
Is lost for love of you;
And we must hold by wood and wold,[243]
As outlaws wont to do.