Child Ballads - Narrative

Lady Alice

1. 'Lady Alice.'
   1. Bell's Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England, p. 127.
   2. Notes and Queries, Second Series, I, 418.
   3. Notes and Queries, Second Series, I, 354.
   Version A
2. 'Giles Collins and Proud Lady Anna,' Gammer Gurton's Garland, p. 38, ed. 1810. Version B

This little ballad, which is said to be still of the regular stock of the stalls, is a sort of counterpart to 'Lord Lovel.' A writer in Notes and Queries, Second Series, I, 418, says: This old song was refined and modernized by the late Richard Westall, R. A.

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