"Lord Lovell", also known as "Lord Lovel", "Lady Ouncebell", "Lord Lavel" and "Lord Revel" is ballad #75 in Francis J. Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads. It is in the Roud Folk Song Index as #49 and exists in several variants. This ballad is originally from England, originating in the Late Middle Ages, with the oldest known versions being found in the regions of Gloucestershire, Somerset, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, and Wiltshire. One known version was included in a letter written in 1765 by Horace Walpole to Thomas Percy, the compiler of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765), a source for many of Child's ballads. Walpole writes "I enclose an old ballad, which I write down from memory, and perhaps very incorrectly, for it is above five and twenty years since I learned it". In Walpole's version the lady's name is Lady Hounsibelle. The last two verses of this ballad correspond to the last verses of "Barbara Allen" except that in this case the roles are reversed and the rose grows from the woman and the briar from the man. There are a number of broadside versions dating back as far as 1833. The song was included in Dixon's Ancient Poems Ballads & Songs (1846). It was printed in Bronson's The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads (1959-1972), Bronson's The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads (1976), Sharp's English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1917), Herd's Ancient & Modern Scottish Songs (1869), Niles' The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles (1961), Vaughan Williams & Lloyd's The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1959) and many more publications.