Synopsis

A esquire's son fell in love with a bailiff's daughter. She would not believe him in love, and his family had him apprenticed for seven years when they discovered it. He believed that she did not think of him the whole time.

The women of Islington went out to the meadows to play, and the bailiff's daughter disguised herself and went toward London. She met her true love and begged a coin from him. He asked after her. She claimed that she was dead. He said that he would give away his horse and go to foreign lands. She tells him that she is alive and in fact, the woman speaking to him. He is delighted.

See also

• The New-Slain Knight
  The New-Slain Knight
  -Synopsis:A man tells a woman that he has seen a knight murdered outside her father's garden. She insists on a description and laments that she has no father for her baby. He offers to take her love's place, and she refuses. He pulls off his disguise and reveals himself as her love, and assures...
  
  
• The Nut-Brown Maid
  The Nut-Brown Maid
  "The Nut-Brown Maid", also known as "The Nut-Brown Maiden", is a ballad included by Thomas Percy in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.-Synopsis:...
  
  

There was a youth and a well beloved youth
and he was the squire's son
and he loved the bailiff's daughter dear
who lived in Islington.

External links

• The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington
• The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington