‘Give my respects to my mother,
She sits in her chair of stone,
And ask her how she likes the news,
Of seven to have but one.
13.
13. This stanza is not in the original, but is supplied from the boy’s repetition, st. 19.
13.4 ‘lake-wake’ = lyke-wake: watching by a corpse.
‘Give my respects to my mother,
As she sits in her chair of oak,
And bid her come to my sickening,