The story of the following ballad was related to me, when a school boy, as a fact which had happened in the North of England. I have adopted the metre of Mr. Lewis's Alonzo and Imogene—a poem deservedly popular. The ballad, however little valuable in itself, derives a value now from having been made the subject of one of Mr. Barker's pictures.
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