Looking at "The mountains high", I can't see any outlaw, with his rejection of licentiousness, but his succumbing to temptation. Before it was embellished by Campbell, Hughes and most of all Lloyd, it seems to have been a straightforward cautionary tale about a girl who's seduced by the charms of a glamorous outlaw. As for mixed fear and joy over female sexual awakening, you can find that mixture in any song that presents loss of virginity as a calamity while also getting entertainment out of it... which is to say, about half the traditional songs in England.