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{{Short description|English ballad}}
'''The Bride's Burial''' is an English [[Broadside ballad]] that dates back to the beginning of the 17th century that is best known by its opening verse, "Come mourn, come mourn with me/ you loyal lovers all."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Crawford|first1=James|title=Catalogue of a Collection of English Ballads of the XVII and XVIII Centuries|date=1890|page=98}}</ref> Copies of "The Bride's Burial" can be found at the [[Huntington Library]], the [[British Library]], the [[Glasgow University Library]], the [[National Library of Scotland]], and the [[Pepys Library]].{{cn|date=January 2023}}
== Synopsis ==
Most often set to the tune of "[[The Lady's Fall]]" or "The Ladies' Fall," ''The Bride's Burial'' follows a husband's mourning for his recently deceased wife. He recounts their marriage, in which immediately after the vows, his wife is struck with a "griping Grief, like Pangs of Death",<ref>{{cite web|last1=EBBA|title=The Bride's Burial|url=http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/32508/xml|website=ebba.english.uscb.edu|accessdate=5 September 2014}}</ref> and upon return home announces her own death where she discards her marriage clothes for a [[winding sheet]], or death shroud. She pleads with her new-husband to remember her in love and pray with her, as she expires. The [[ballad]] ends with a burial recognizing the Bride's virginity, and asks the reader to remember the frailty of life and love.{{cn|date=January 2023}}
The ballad is most often assembled in [[octaves]] with various rhyme schemes.{{cn|date=January 2023}}
== Notes ==
The tune most set to ''The Bride's Burial,'' "The Lady's Fall" shares a similar tune to the popular, "In Peascod Time."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Simpson|first1=Claude|title=The British Broadside Ballad and its Music|date=1966|publisher=Rutgers University Press|pages=368–9}}</ref>
"The Bride's Burial" has been rendered into both woodcuts—found on many of the ballads<ref>{{cite web|title=EBBA|url=http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/search_combined/?ss=the+bride%27s+burial|accessdate=15 September 2014}}</ref>—and also a painting by [[George Adolphus Storey]] in 1859, which is now held at the [[Tate Gallery]] though not on display for the public.
== References ==
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==Further reading==
# Chappell, W. (1859). Popular Music of the Olden Time. London: Cramer, Beale, & Chappell.
# Simpson, Claude. (1966). The Broadside Ballad and Its Music. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press
== External links ==
* [http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/search_combined/?ss=bride%27s+burial Copies of The Bride's Burial Ballads] at the [http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ English Broadside Ballad Archive] of [[UC, Santa Barbara]]
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[[Category:Ballads]]
[[Category:17th-century songs]]
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