Chapter 117 BALLAD-ALICE BRAND

Merry it is in the good greenwood,

When the mavis and merle are singing,note

When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry,

And the hunter's horn is ringing.

265 "O Alice Brand, my native land

Is lost for love of you;

And we must hold by wood and wold,

As outlaws wont to do.

"O Alice, 'twas all for thy locks so bright,