Here are the notes from Penguin:

Oxford City (FSJ II 162)
Perhaps this song celebrated a real life tragedy. It often appeared on broadsides in the nineteenth century, published by Catnach and Such, of London, Harkness of Preston, and Jackson of Birmingham. Other versions have been found in oral tradition in Essex (JSJ II 157), Sussex (FSJ II 200), and Dor set (FSJ VII 41), 'with two further texts from Somerset and Dorset, collected by H.E.D. Hammond (FSJ VII 42—3). Our text is completed from these several versions.

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And the Traditional Ballad Index:

Oxford City [Laws P30]

DESCRIPTION: A servant asks a lady to wed; she put him off on the grounds that they are too young. When he sees her dancing with someone else, he poisons her wine. Feeling ill, she asks him to take her home. He reveals that both have drunk poison; they die together
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (JFSS)
KEYWORDS: courting death poison murder wine suicide
FOUND IN: US(MW,NE) Britain(Scotland,England(All)) Ireland
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Laws P30, "Oxford City"
Vaughan Williams/Lloyd, p. 83, "Oxford City" (1 text, 1 tune)
Copper-SoBreeze, pp. 212-213, "Poison in a Glass of Wine" (1 text, 1 tune)
Kennedy 329, "Poison in a Glass of Wine" (1 text, 1 tune)
MacSeegTrav 74, "Oxford City" (1 text, 1 tune)
Gardner/Chickering 18, "Oxford City" (1 text, 1 tune)
Flanders/Brown, pp. 92-93, "In Oxford City" (1 text, 1 tune)
DT 508, OXFJEAL*
Roud #218
RECORDINGS:
Mary Doran, "Oxford City" (on FSB7)
Roscoe Holcomb, "True Love" (on Holcomb-Ward1)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Little Glass of Wine" (on NLCR06)
Stanley Brothers, "The Little Glass of Wine" (Rich-R-Tone 423, rec. c. late 1947) (Columbia 20590, 1949) (Rich-R-Tone 1056 [as "Little Glass of Wine"], rec. 1952)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
The Jealous Lover
File: LP30

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