What supper gave she you?"

"I supped on roasted eel;

O lady mother, my heart is very sick:

I supped on roasted eel;

Alas, alas, that I should have to die."

"And did you eat it all?

My son, beloved, blooming, and gentle bred,

And did you eat it all?"

"Only the half I eat;

O lady mother, my heart is very sick: