This ballad is the counterpart of one found in other languages (and represented in English by Percy's canto 'The Friar of Orders Gray,' Reliques, i, 225, 1765), in which a man tells a woman that the object of her affection, lover, or more commonly husband, is dead. It is found in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romaic.
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