Lady Alice

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Lady Alice is Child ballad 85.[1] It may be a fragment of a longer ballad that has not been preserved.

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[edit] Synopsis

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.

[edit] Variants

Lord Lovel, Child ballad 75, uses equivalent themes.[2]

[edit] Commentary

The entwined flowers appear also in Barbara Allen, Lord Thomas and Fair Annet, and Fair Margaret and Sweet William.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Lady Alice"
  2. ^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 279, Dover Publications, New York 1965

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