Tailor, The

DESCRIPTION: A tailor comes to mend clothes. The girl of the house falls asleep and the tailor rapes her. She would have her maidenhead returned. He asks how that should be. She says "jist the way that it was ta'en." He lays her down and "gien her't owre, and owre"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1776 (Herd)
KEYWORDS: rape sex virginity clothes
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Greig/Duncan7 1438, "Daffin Doon Dilly" (2 texts, 2 tunes)
ADDITIONAL: David Herd, editor, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc. (Edinburgh, 1870 (reprint of 1776)), Vol II, pp. 145-147, "The Tailor"
Roud #7154
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Country Girl (The Fair Maid of the West)" (theme of regaining maidenhead)
cf. "The Widow of Westmoreland's Daughter" (theme of regaining maidenhead)
File: GrD71438

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