| Summary: | Walking out one morning, the narrator meets a beautiful young woman clad in a green mantle. He offers to marry her and dress her in costly garments. However, she is betrothed to a man whose name is engraved on her mantle. Her lover is William O'Riley - the narrator tells her he knew O'Riley - who died bravely at Waterloo. The maiden says she will die and not wed another. However, the narrator reveals that he is O'Riley and they marry. cf. Greenleaf and Mansfield no. 87; a Waterloo Irish ballad, common in English broadsides.
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