The West Country Damosel's Complaint
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The West Country Damosel's Complaint is Child ballad 292.
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The heroine demands of William that he will marry her or kill her. He warns her that living with him in the wild will be very hard. She comes, but after three months has enough of cold and hunger and goes to her sister, begging for alms. Her sister calls up her huntsman and has them hunt her as if she were a deer. Will finds her, laments her death and his unkindness at length, declaring he will die and asking the robins to bury them. He dies, and the birds bury them in leaves.
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