LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL WYET
The Text is taken from Motherwell’s Minstrelsy, a similar version being given in Maidment’s North Countrie Garland. A few alterations from the latter version are incorporated.
The Story bears tokens of confusion with Lady Maisry in some of the variants of either, but here the tragedy is that the bridegroom is brother to the lover. The end of this ballad in all its forms is highly unnatural in its style: why should Maisery’s remorse at having been such an expense to Lord Ingram be three times as great as her grief for the loss of her lover? It is by no means romantic.
LORD INGRAM AND CHIEL WYET
1.
1.4 ‘honour’: Motherwell printed bonheur.
Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet
Was baith born in one bower;
Laid baith their hearts on one lady,
The less was their honour.