Child Maurice
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Child Maurice or Gil Morrice is Child ballad 83.
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[edit] Synopsis
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The hero sends tokens to her lady and asks her to see him in the woods. Her lord learns of it and comes to where he will meet her, and kills him. He brings back the head, and the lady confesses that he was her illegitimate son. Her lord is deeply grieved and declares he would never have killed him if he had known.
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[edit] Adaptations
John Home based his tragedy Douglas on it.
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