The Gay Goshawk
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The Gay Goshawk is Child ballad number 96.
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A Scottish squire sends a letter to his love by a goshawk, who tells her that he has sent many letters and will die for love. She goes to ask her father a boon, and he says, anything but leave to marry the squire. She asks that, if she dies, she will be buried in Scotland. He agrees, and she takes a sleeping potion. When her body is carried to Scotland, the squire comes to lament her, opening the coffin or the winding sheet. She wakes -- sometimes after he kisses her -- tells him she has fasted nine days for him, and tells her brothers to go home without her.
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