Child's, The English And Scottish Ballads

Volume 2 of 8 from 1860 edition

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	LORD LOVEL.
	" This ballad, taken down from the recitation of a lady in Roxburghshire, appears to claim affinity to Border Song; and the title of the ' discourteous squire,' would incline one to suppose that it has derived its ori­gin from some circumstance connected with the county of Northumberland, where Lovel was anciently a well-known name." Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 31. A version from a recent broadside is printed in Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England, Percy Society, vol. xvii. p. 78. A fragment of a similar story, the relations of the parties being reversed, is Lady Alice, given in Bell's Ballads of the Peasantry, p. 127, and Notes and Que­ries, 2d S, i. 418. —Compare also Fair Margaret, &c. p. 140. Lord Lovel stands at his stable door, Mounted upon a grey steed ; And bye came Ladie Nanciebel, And wish'd Lord Lovel much speed. " 0 whare are ye going, Lord Lovel, s My dearest tell to me ? " "01 am going a far journey, Some strange countrie to see;