... among the rocks one of the sea women combing her long hair, and if he can creep up to her unbeknownst, and steal away from her her “cubuleen driuth,” which is a kind of small cap the merrows do be wearing, she can never go back under the sea any more at all, but must follow his bidding while ever he has it in his keeping.
O Scarlet hunter, riding past,
O hunter, do not ride so fast,
But tell me where’s my mother?—
“Nay, child, why dost thou ask of me?
Safe by the hearth should mothers be,