The Ballad ‘Lady Clare’ is about a woman finding that she is not a rich Lady, but she is in-fact a poor maid. she then goes to her fiancé and, trusting his love for her, tells the truth. The Lady in the ballad was not rich because the real Lady Clare died while feeding from the nurse and the she swapped the child with her own. I think the nurse swapped the children for two reasons; one was to save her job and two was to give her child a better life than the she could have given her.
The ballad has quite a lot of detail and you can understand the feelings of some of the characters quite well like when the nurse says to ‘‘Lay Clare’’ – “give one kiss to mother dear alas! My chi
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