+The Text+ is here given from the Jamieson-Brown MS. Versions,
lengthened and therefore less succinct and natural, are given in
Christie's _Traditional Ballad Airs_ (_Love Robbie_) and in Buchan's
_Ballads of the North of Scotland_ (_Brown Robyn and Mally_).
+The Story+ is a genuine bit of romance. The proud porter is apparently
suspicious, believing that the king's daughter would not have made him
drunk for any good purpose. In spite of that he cannot see through Brown
Robin's disguise, though the king remarks that 'this is a sturdy dame.'
The king's daughter, one would think, who conceals Robin's bow in her
bosom, must also have been somewhat sturdy. Note the picturesque touch
in 8.2.