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The Duke of Gordon's Daughteris #237 of theChild Ballads (Roud 342),[1] the collection of 305ballads fromEngland andScotland, and theirAmerican variants, collected byFrancis James Child in the late nineteenth century. The collection was published asThe English and Scottish Popular Ballads between 1882 and 1898 byHoughton Mifflin in ten[2] volumes and later reissued in a five volume edition.
Lady Jean falls in love with Captain Ogilvie and runs away with him. The duke tries to have him executed, but the king consents only to have him demoted. Lady Jean finds following after him in poverty, with children, unbearable and goes back to her family, where she is welcomed. Then Captain Ogilvie inherits an earldom. He goes to get his wife and children. The duke would make him welcome, but he refuses to step inside, only to fetch away Jean and the children.
