es to her
uncle's house to visit her. Upon being told that she is absent, he
fights his way in with drawn sword and takes her away with him.

GREENBRIAR SHORE, 4aa, 10: An amorous youth recites his love for Nancy
on Greenbriar Shore. Her father chases him away with an "army of a
thousand or more." The sad lot of womankind deplored.

4. SONGS OF ABSENT LOVERS REUNITED.

THE SINGLE SOLDIER (THE SAILOR LOVER, JOHN RILEY), v, 4abcb, 8ca: "A
pretty fair damsel in a garden" is wooed by a passing soldier (or
sailor). She rejects him, saying her lover is absent in the wars.
Assured of her faithfulness, he proves his identity by taking their
betrothal ring from his pocket.

ANNIE AND WILLIE, 4a3b4c3b, 7: He bids her farewell at the seashore and
goes on a long voyage. After three years he returns, and, disguised as a
beggar, tests her devotion, draws the "patch from his eye," is
recognized, and marries her. (Cf. The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington,
page 8, above.)

PRETTY POLLY, 4aabb, 8: Pining for her soldier lover, who is absent in
the "town of renown," she goes in the guise of a trooper to seek him,
becomes his room-mate for the night, and discloses her identity in the
morning.

5. SONGS OF THE MURDEROUS LOVER. (CF. I FOR SIMILAR BALLADS.)

FLORELLA (FLOELLA, FAIR ELLA, JEALOUS LOVER), iv, 3abcb, 11ca: Her lover
comes one moonlit night to her cottage window and persuades her to
wander with him "through meadows dark and gay." She reluctantly follows,
and is murdered by him, forgiving him with her dying breath.

LITTLE OMY WISE (LITTLE ANNA), iii, 4aa, 13: John Lewis seduces her with
promises, lures her to Adam's Spring, murders her, and throws her body
into the stream. She is "missen," the body is found, the murderer views
it and confesses the crime.

MILLER-BOY, ii, 4a3b4c3b, 12ca: Johnny, the miller's apprentice, falls
in love with a Knoxville girl. One night the pair go walking; he murders
her with a fence-stake, explains the stains on his clothes as due to
nose-bleed, but is convicted. (Cf. Lizzie Wan, Child, No. 51, and
Waxford Girl, page 13.)

POLLY VAUGHN, 2abcb (approximately), 4ca: One evening dressed in white
she goes walking, takes refuge from a shower under a holly bush, is
mistaken for a swan by her lover, Jimmy Randal, and shot.

ROSE COLALEE (COLLEEN?), 4a3b4c3b, 2: She is murdered on the bank of a
river, by her lover, who, intoxicated with Burgundy wine, is persuaded
by his father's promise of mon