But, sighing, said that weary wight—

"I wish my days were at an end!"

Then out and spak the Billy Blind,[[D]]

(He spak ay in a gude time:)

"Yet gae ye to the market-place,

"And there do buy a loaf of wace;[[E]]

"Do shape it bairn and bairnly like,

"And in it twa glassen een you'll put;

"And bid her your boy's christening to,

"Then notice weel what she shall do;