Her auld father to see.
LADY ALICE
The Text of this little ballad is given from Bell’s Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England.
It should be compared with Lord Lovel.
LADY ALICE
1.
1.2 ‘quoif,’ cap. The line should doubtless be:— ‘Mending her midnight quoif.’
Lady Alice was sitting in her bower-window,
At midnight mending her quoif,