Lady Alice

For the apple variety, see Lady Alice (apple).

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

Variants

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

Commentary

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

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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