85. Lady Alice.
P. 279. The following version is printed by Mr G. R. Tomson in his Ballads of the North Countrie, 1888, p. 434, from a MS. of Mrs Rider Haggard.
GILES COLLINS AND LADY ANNICE
1
Giles Collins said to his own mother,
‘Mother, come bind up my head,
And send for the parson of our parish,
For to-morrow I shall be dead.
2
‘And if that I be dead,