Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from British Ballads, Vol. 1 of 4: Ancient and Modern
This ballad has retained its hold on the country people for many centuries, and is still known in some parts. 1 have received a version from a gentleman in Lincolnshire, which his father (born Dec. 1793) had heard as a boy from an old labouring man, who could not read and had learnt it from his fore-elders. Here the fallow doe has become a lady full of woe. - See also The T we Corbin.
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