Spanish Lady's Love, The

DESCRIPTION: Imprisoned by an English captain, the Spanish lady falls in love with her captor. They exchange praises for the English, and he tells her they are mismatched. This does not convince her; at last he says he is married. They go their separate ways
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1728 (registered 1603, and quoted in 1616)
KEYWORDS: courting separation love prison
FOUND IN: Britain(England)
REFERENCES (10 citations):
Hales/Furnival-BishopPercysFolioManuscript, volume III, pp. 393-398, "The Spanish Ladies Love" (1 text)
Percy/Wheatley-ReliquesOfAncientEnglishPoetry II, pp. 247-251, "The Spanish Lady's Love" (1 text)
Rimbault-Musical IllustrationsOfBishopPercysReliques XXXI, p. 72, "The Spanish Lady's Love" (1 partial text, 1 tune)
Bell-Combined-EarlyBallads-CustomsBalladsSongsPeasantryEngland, pp. 138-142, "The Spanish Lady's Love" (1 text)
Ritson-AncientSongsBalladsFromHenrySecondToTheRevolution, pp. 240-243, "The Spanish Lady's Love" (1 text)
Quiller-Couch-OxfordBookOfBallads 161, "The Spanish Lady's Love" (1 text)
Chappell-PopularMusicOfTheOldenTime, pp. 186-187, "The Spanish Lady" (1 excerpt, 1 tune)
Chappell/Wooldridge-OldEnglishPopularMusic II, pp. 84-85, "The Spanish Lady" (1 tune, partial text)
Olson-BroadsideBalladIndex, ZN2935, "Will you hear a Spanish Lady"; cf. AN2934, "Will you hear a German Princess"
MANUSCRIPT: {MSPercyFolio}, The Percy Folio, London, British Library MS. Additional 27879, page 486
ST OBB161 (Partial)
Roud #9735
NOTES [84 words]: Hyder E. Rollins, An Analytical Index to the Ballad-Entries (1557-1709) In the Register of the Company of Stationers of London, 1924 (I use the 1967 Tradition Press reprint with a new Foreword by Leslie Shepard) lists several pieces that might be this:
• p. 217, #2509, "the Spanish Ladies Love," registered June 11, 1603 to William White
• p. 217, #2510, "The Spanish ladies love," registered March 1, 1675
There is also a "Spanish Lady" registred December 14, 1624, but I can't say if it's the same. - RBW
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