Lady Alice
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Lady Alice is Child ballad 85. It may be a fragment of a longer ballad that has not been preserved.
[edit] Synopsis
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Lady Alice sees a coffin being borne by, and it is Giles Collins, her love. She dies before the next day. Flowers grow from his grave to hers -- until they are cut off -- or grow from both until they are entwined.
Spoilers end here.
[edit] Commentary
The entwined flowers appear also in Barbara Allen, Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, and Fair Margaret and Sweet William.
[edit] External links
- Lady Alice
- George Collins American variant
- Earl Colvin American variant
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