The Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun Hie

The Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun Hie (Child 290, Roud 125) is an Anglo-Scottish border ballad, existing in several variants, some of them fragmentary.

[1] A man expresses an interest in a woman.

The hostler's wife lures her to him with an offer of fine wine.

The variants diverge widely about the next event: the earl's son, two years later, sees the beautiful daughter she had with him; in both variants with the earl's younger son, he receives a commission; the highland squire sends for her (without explaining why he left her).

But whichever event occurs, it results in the man marrying her.