The New-Slain Knight
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The New-Slain Knight is
Child ballad The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were published as '' ...
number 263.


Synopsis

A man tells a woman that he has seen a knight murdered outside her father's garden. She insists on a description and laments that she has no father for her baby. He offers to take her love's place, and she refuses. He pulls off his disguise and reveals himself as her love, and assures him that now he knows her love is true.


See also

* The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington * The Nut-Brown Maid


External links


''The New-Slain Knight''
Child Ballads Year of song unknown {{Folk-song-stub