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Even though Baillie implies here that love has the power to raze class distinctions, she never clearly says the lord will marry the storm-beat maid, nor does she resolve what will happen to the newly jilted bride.

'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

However, as my analysis has shown, the storm-beat maid is a rich and complex character and the lord's reaction to her arrival provides an interesting exploration of human motivation for love.

'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

The "golden price" is the dowry that his noble bride (whom he will now jilt) enticed him with, and certainly the "friends [sic] advice" is the pressure that his courtly comrades placed on him to leave the storm-beat maid.

'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

Like many a forest which they first saw in its primeval vastness, these pioneers have disappeared into the shadowy domain of an almost forgotten past, and their memory is only recalled as we pass by some storm-beat cape, or land-locked bay, or silent river, to which may still cling the names they gave as they swept along in the days of the old régime.

Canada J. G. Bourinot

Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near, a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast.

The Common Reader 1925

It was so cold; and on her face a strained and beaten look as though hand and face belonged to one that stood most chilled and storm-beat upon the bridge, peering through the storm.

This Freedom 1925

-- To-day a storm-beat pinnace standing in for my island, and in it Abnegation Mings and divers others of Bartlemy's rogues, survivors

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

For a wild an 'tossin' front of five hundred miles, from west to east, the storm-beat herds comes driftin '. An' ridin 'an' sw'arin 'an' plungin 'about comes with 'em the boys on their broncos.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

Here and there a northern hermit found, as Hilarion found, a fitting home by the seaside, on some lonely island or storm-beat rock, like St. Cuthbert, off the coast of Northumberland; like St. Rule, on his rock at St. Andrew's; and St. Columba, with his ever-venerable company of missionaries, on Iona.

The Hermits Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 1878

Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable blast.

Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I. 1848