What is the setting in the poem, A Lover’s Complaint?

Most of the poem takes place in a natural, outdoor space. The reader is given a fair amount of description about what this space looks like. Indeed, the only role the narrator plays in the poem is essentially giving readers directions for how to get there. It is over a hill and inside a vale, where there is also a river. This unites multiple different pastoral landscapes, presenting the natural world all at once as a space of potential purgation and transformation.