Captain Wedderburn's Courtship

Versions of Captain Wedderburn's Courtship include:

• "The Lovers' Riddle" (A nobleman's fair daughter rode down a narrow lane), broadside (c. 1850).
• "Captain Wedderburn's Courtship" in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ed. by Francis James Child (1882-1898).
  • Variant A (The laird of Bristoll's daughter was in the woods walking)
  • Variant B (The Lord of Rosslyn's daughter gaed through the wud her lane)
  • Variant C (The laird of Roslin's daughter walked thro the wood her lane)
• The Cavalier's Choice, a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (It was a gallant cavalier / Of honour and renown)
• "The Lord Roslin's Daughter" in Three Songs.
• Lord Roslin's Daughter.