And what have ye made of the washing-wine?

Or where have ye made your bearing-bed,

To bear a son in the sides of Tyne?"

"The bearing-bread is soft and new,

There is no soil in the straining wine;

The bed was made between green and blue,

It stands full soft by the sides of Tyne.

"The fair grass was my bearing-bread,

The well-water my washing-wine;

The low leaves were my bearing-bed,