“False Mallie”

Description

"Oh, did ye hear how Mall was courted... By a young sailor brisk and bold?" Jamie goes to war, and Mallie breaks her vow and marries another. When he returns and finds her false, he goes mad, and ends up in Bedlam cursing her name and her deeds

Cross references

• cf. "Lovely Annie" (theme: a man driven "mad" by a woman's infidelity)
• cf. "The Green Bushes" [Laws P2]," particularly the "Nut Bushes" version (theme: a man driven "mad" by a woman's infidelity)

References

1. Ord, pp. 183-184, "False Mallie" (1 text)
2. Roud #5529
3. BI, Ord183