Dear lady mother.
Oh, my heart aches so,
Make ready my bed."
"What has she given you to eat,
My heart, my soul, my little son?"
"She gave me a crab with four feet, 1
1 The crab with four feet is the conventional poisonous food
in Hungarian folk-lore, as the toad is in English and the
spotted frog in French.
Dear lady mother.
Oh, my heart aches so,
Make ready my bed."