Christopher White [Child 108]

DESCRIPTION: A lady, mourning Christopher White's banishment, is wooed by the singer. She warns "If I prove false to Christopher White, Merchant, I cannot be true to thee," -- but marries him. While he is away she sends for Christopher; they go off, taking much wealth
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1750 (Percy folio)
KEYWORDS: love separation theft escape money
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REFERENCES (4 citations):
Child 108, "Christopher White" (1 text)
Hales/Furnival-BishopPercysFolioManuscript, volume III, pp. 494-498, "Christop[h]er White" (1 text)
Olson-BroadsideBalladIndex, ZN2, "Abroad as I was walking, all by the Park-side"
MANUSCRIPT: {MSPercyFolio}, The Percy Folio, London, British Library, MS. Additional 27879, page 513
Roud #3974
NOTES [48 words]: According to David C. Fowler, A Literary History of the Popular Ballad, Duke University Press, 1968, p. 158 n. 25, this is one of eighteen ballads in the Child collection found only in the Percy Folio. Bruce Olson seems to have thought there was another version, but I haven't seen it. - RBW
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