14.
‘Alas! alas! this woeful fate!
This weary fate that’s been laid for me!’
An’ ance or twice she sobbed and sighed,
An’ her tender heart did brak in three.
Note.—Doubtless grey selchie is more correct than great, as in the other version. Some verses were forgotten after stanza 13.
[ THE LYKE-WAKE DIRGE] ([p. 88])
‘Art thow i-wont at lychwake
Any playes for to make?’