They had not been sailing the miles they were many
Before she was delivered of a beautiful baby:
‘O tie up my head! O and tie it up easy,
And throw me overboard, both me and my baby!’
3
She floated on the waves, and she floated so easy,
That they took her on board again, both she and her baby.
(The rest forgotten.)
25. Willie’s Lyke-Wake.
Pp. 247 ff., 506. ‘The Blue Flowers and the Yellow,’ Greenock, printed by W. Scott [1810].