Young Andrew [Child 48]

DESCRIPTION: Andrew woos a lady. He bids her to steal her father's money for their wedding. She brings the money; he takes her clothes and sends her home naked. Her father refuses to let her in without the gold; she dies. (Her brothers hunt Andrew down.)
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1750 (Percy folio)
LONG DESCRIPTION: Andrew woos a lady. They have sex. He bids her to steal her father's money for their wedding. She brings the money; he takes her clothes for his own lady and sends her home naked. Her father refuses to let her in without the gold; she dies. (Her brothers hunt Andrew down, break his bones, and leave him to be eaten alive by a wolf.)
KEYWORDS: courting theft family abandonment infidelity greed hardheartedness sex betrayal manhunt revenge death
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REFERENCES (4 citations):
Child 48, "Young Andrew" (1 text)
Hales/Furnival-BishopPercysFolioManuscript, volume II, pp. 327-333, "Younge Andrew" (1 text)
Quiller-Couch-OxfordBookOfBallads 59, "Young Andrew" (1 text)
MANUSCRIPT: {MSPercyFolio}, The Percy Folio, London, British Library, MS. Additional 27879, p. 292
Roud #6740
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" [Child 9] (theme)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Death of Young Andrew
NOTES [43 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. - RBW
Child refers to similar ballads in Poland. - PJS
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