Lady Maisry
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Lady Maisry is Child ballad 65, existing in many variants.
[edit] Synopsis
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
The heroine -- Maisry, Janet, Margery, Marjory, Susie -- becomes pregnant (sometimes after rejecting many Scottish lords). She declares that she will not surrender her (often English) true love. Her family goes to burn her. A page boy goes to fetch the true love, but he arrives too late.
Many variants end with his vows of revenge on all her family, and often on all the lands about. In some, he adds that he will remember the page boy, sometimes resolving to become a pilgrim after his revenge.
In some, he dies of grief, or goes mad.
Spoilers end here.
[edit] External links
- Lady Maisry several variants
- Lady Maisry, with commentary
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