Well enough known version of The Gypsy Laddie to have been a running theme in Dorothy L Sayers final Lord Peter Wimsey detective novel, Busman's Honeymoon, 1936, in which Lord Peter finally gets to marry his Harriet after the various vagaries of his courtship related in three earlier novels. The first two chapters are called New-Wedded Lord & Goosefeather Bed, and there are refs to 'cold open field' &c.

~Michael~