What is that, what I see
So red, so bright, beyond the sea?
’Tis he was pierc’d through the hands,
Through the feet, through the throat,
Through the tongue;
Through the liver and the lung.
Well is them that well may
Fast on Good-Friday.”
Another prayer, used by the thieves and robbers on the Borders after meat, in order to stealing from their neighbours.
“He that ordain’d us to be born,