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young man in a duel, and only finds the truth about his identity after killing him.
To her grief, he declares ("denouncer") that, had he known the truth, her son
would still be alive.
"Bonny Barbara Allen" (Ch 84)
"Lady Alice" (Ch 85)
"Lamkin" (Ch 93)
A girl ("offender"), vexed by her lover's toasts to his female company, makes
him pay for his courtesy by such resentment that he ("offended") dies. Moved
by remorse, the church bells ringing "her responsibility," and sometimes also
by her parents' and friends' reproval, she realizes and confesses ("denouncer")
her love for him, and succumbs to her mistake. They are buried together.
Plants grow and entwine on their grave.
A girl, meeting a funeral procession, learns from the pallbearers that they are
carrying her lover to the ground. Distraught by the news, ("offended") she
infringes the nonnal funeral procedure by requesting them to open the coffin,
change his shroud for fine silk, and let her kiss his lips. Or, she finds him dead
on his own father's threshold, and dressing him for burial, also kisses him.
Following this, she announces her own death. She succumbs to her grief, and
plants grow from the lovers' separate graves.
A criminal and his accomplice ("offenders") murder a defenceless woman
("offended") for an unspecified reason. The lady's daughter, witnessing the
scene, repoTts ("denouncer") the crime to her father, and the murderers are
executed.
"Mary Hamilton" (Ch 173)
A woman ("offender"), sent to the gallows for some unspecified crime,
confesses ("denouncer") her remorse and hope in divine mercy.!
IThe single version of the ballad type in the local repertoire merely reports the heroine's
lament, without specifying the nature of the crime that shc bitterly regrets.