The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19936   Message #3929683
Posted By: meself
07-Jun-18 - 03:43 PM
Thread Name: Twa Corbies
Subject: RE: Twa Corbies
An' naebody kens that he lies there, o
But his hawk and his hound and his lady fair, o.


Given the context - the terse, grim, sardonic dialogue of the twa corbies - I don't see how you could interpret those lines in any other way than to mean that the 'lady fair' had a hand in the death. Why on earth else would the lady fair not happen to mention to anyone where the body is? That is a rhetorical question; please treat it as such.