Lady Alice

Lady Alice

Lady Alice is Child ballad 85. [Francis James Child, "English and Scottish Popular Ballads", [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch085.htm "Lady Alice"] ] It may be a fragment of a longer ballad that has not been preserved.

ynopsis

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.

Variants

"Lord Lovel", Child ballad 75, uses equivalent themes. [Francis James Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads", v 2, p 279, Dover Publications, New York 1965]

Commentary

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

References

External links

* [http://www.contemplator.com/child/collins.html "George Collins"] American variant
* [http://www.contemplator.com/child/colvin.html "Earl Colvin"] American variant


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