10 Then Diverus sent out his hungry dogs, To bite poor Lazarus away; They had not power to bite one bite, But licked his sores away. 11 And it fell out upon one day, Poor Lazarus he sickened and died; There came two angels out of heaven, His soul thereto to guide. 12 'Rise up, rise up, brother Lazarus, And come along with me; There is a place prepared in heaven, For to sit upon an angel's knee.' 13 And it fell out upon one day Rich Diverus he sickened and died; There came two serpents out of hell, His soul thereto to guide. 14 'Rise up, rise up, brother Diverus, And come along with me; There is a place prepared in hell, For to sit upon a serpent's knee.' * * * * * #A. a.# _14-16. There are only these trifling variations in the stanzas cited by Sandys:_ 16^2. of an. 16^3. I'd made my peace. #b.# 1^3. his guests. 7^3. I'll give to thee. 8^3. But they. 8^4. And flung. 9^3. But they. 9^4. So licked. 10^3. came an angel. 10^4. there for. 11^2. come along. 11^3. For there's a place in heaven provided. 12^3. There came a serpent. 12^4. there for. 13^{2-4}. And come along with me, For there's a place in hell provided To sit on a serpent's knee. 14^1. lifting his eyes to heaven. 14^2. And seeing. 15^{3, 4}. Then there would be an ending day, But in hell I must ever last. 16^{3, 4}. I would make my will and then secure That the. #B.# _13, 14 differ but slightly in Hone:_ 13^1. As it. 13^2. Rich Dives. 13^4. therein. 14^1. Dives. 14^3. For you've a place provided. 14^4. To sit. 57 BROWN ROBYN´S CONFESSION Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 110. Motherwell's MS., p. 580. The only known version of 'Brown Robyn's Confession' is the one printed in Ballads of the North of Scotland, the copy in Motherwell's MS. having been derived from Buchan. The ballad, as we have it in English, celebrates a miracle of the Virgin, and is our only example of that extensive class of legends, unless we choose to include 'The Jew's Daughter,' and to take Robin Hood's view of the restoration of his loan, in the fourth Fit of the Little Gest. Of rescues on the sea, by which Mary "vere maris stella indiciis evidentissimis comprobatur," we have two in most of the collections of the Virgin's miracles, e. g., Vincent of Beauvais, 1. VII, cc 88,89, Gautier de Coincy, ed. Poquet, pp 515, 605. The deliverance, however, _is_ for honor done to Mary, and _not_ for a fair confession.