"You will stay in gude green wood, And with the chase go on; Until yon white hind pass you by, Then straight to me ye'll come." 60 He's girt his sword then by his side, His buckler and his bow; And he is on thro' gude greenwood, To hunt the deer and roe. And in the greenwood he did stay, 65 And with the chase gaed on, Until the white hind pass'd him by, Then to his love he came. He girt his sword then by his side, Fast thro' greenwood went he; 70 And there he found his love lie dead, Beneath the green oak tree. The sweet young babe that she had born Right lively seemed to be; "Ohon, alas!" said young Archibald, 75 "A mournful scene to me! "Altho' my sweet babe is alive, This does increase my woe; How to nourish a motherless babe Is mair than I do know." 80 He looked east, he looked west, To see what he could see; Then spied the Earl o' Huntingdon, And mony a man him wi'. Then Archibald fled from the earl's face, 85 Among the leaves sae green, That he might hear what might be said, And see, and nae be seen. The earl straight thro' the greenwood came, Unto the green oak tree; 90 And there he saw his daughter dead, Her living child her wi'. Then he's taen up the little boy, Rowed him in his gown sleeve; Said, "Tho' your father's to my loss, 95 Your mother's to me leave. "And if ye live until I die, My bowers and lands ye'se heir; You are my only daughter's child, But her I never had mair. 100 "Ye'se hae all kinds of nourishment, And likewise nurses three; If I knew where the fause knave were, High hanged should he be." His daughter he buried in gude church-yard, 105 All in a mournful mood; And brought the boy to church that day, And christen'd him Robin Hood. This boy was bred in the earl's ha', Till he became a man; 110 But loved to hunt in gude green wood To raise his noble fame. ROSE THE RED AND WHITE LILLIE. From Buchan's _Ballads of the North of Scotland_, i. 67. See p. 173. Now word is gane thro' a' the land, Gude seal that it sae spread! To Rose the Red and White Lillie, Their mither dear was dead. Their father's married a bauld woman, 5 And brought her ower the sea; Twa sprightly youths, her ain young sons, Intill her companie. They fix'd their eyes on those ladies, On shipboard as they stood, 10 And sware, if ever they wan to land, These ladies they wou'd wed.