P. 181, III, 510 b, IV, 469 a, V, 223 b. Add to the Southern ballads ‘Le mariage tragique,’ Beauquier, Chansons p. recueillies en Franche-comté, p. 81; ‘Las bodas,’ Milá, Romancerillo Catalan, p. 257, No 262. (In this last, ‘vert marca esperansa.’)
74. Fair Margaret and Sweet William.
P. 199. Communicated by Miss Mary E. Burleigh, of Worcester, Massachusetts, and derived, through a relative, from her great-grandmother, who had heard the ballad sung at gatherings of young people in Webster, Massachusetts, not long after 1820.
1
There was such a man as King William, there was,
And he courted a lady fair,
He courted such a lady as Lady Margaret,
For a whole long twelve-month year.
2
Said he, ‘I’m not the man for you,