Maude Clare

• ‘His bride was like a village maid, Maude Clare was like a queen’
• Toms father had ‘just [his] tale to tell’
• ’Pale with inward strive’ ‘pale with pride‘
• ‘my lord gazed long on pale Maude clare’
• ‘heres my half of the golden chain’
• ‘waded ankle deep for lilies in the beck’
• ‘lilies are budding now’
• ‘he’s my lord for better or for worse’
• ‘I’ll love him till he loves me best’
• ‘complex negotiation of power’
• fallen unchaperoned woman at wedding