+The Text+ is taken from Motherwell's _Minstrelsy_, a similar version
being given in Maidment's _North Countrie Garland_. A few alterations
from the latter version are incorporated.
+The Story+ bears tokens of confusion with _Lady Maisry_ in some of the
variants of either, but here the tragedy is that the bridegroom is
brother to the lover. The end of this ballad in all its forms is highly
unnatural in its style: why should Maisery's remorse at having been such
an expense to Lord Ingram be three times as great as her grief for the
loss of her lover? It is by no means romantic.