Lord Lovel (Roud 49, Child 75) is an English-language folk ballad that exists in several variants.
The journey that Lord Lovel undertakes is possibly a pilgrimage, a quest to a holy shrine, though in some versions he is going "Foreign countries for to see, see, see".
[4] One known version was included in a letter written in 1765 by Horace Walpole to Thomas Percy, the compiler of "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry" (1765), a source for many of Child's ballads.
[4] The song originated in the Late Middle Ages, with the oldest known versions being found in the regions of Gloucestershire, Somerset, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, and Wiltshire.
[10] A version in Roy Palmer's "A Book of British Ballads" contains this verse, describing Lord Lovel's death: Then he flung himself down by the side of the corpse, With a shivering gulp and a guggle, Gave two hops, three kicks, heav'd a sigh, blew his nose.