XVI
Now Lady Helen is gane hame,
Made him a winding sheet,
And at the back o’ merry Lincoln
The dead corpse did her meet.
XVII
And a’ the bells o’ merry Lincoln
Without men’s hands were rung;
And a’ the books o’ merry Lincoln
Were read without man’s tongue;
And never was such a burial
Sin’ Adam’s day begun.
FOOTNOTES:
[497] ba’ = ball, football.
[498] doen = betaken.
[499] play-feres = playfellows.
[500] row’d = wrapped.
[501] downa = cannot, have not the force to.