Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems

Cleveland Lyke-wake Dirge

     Traditional
     Sir Walter Scott's version

     From Appendix I of 1st Edition.

     This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
        Every nighte and alle;
     Fire and sleete and candle lighte,
        And Christe receive thye saule.

     When thou from hence away are paste,
        Every nighte and alle;
     To Whinny-muir thou comest at laste;
        And Christe receive thye saule.

     If ever thou gavest hosen and shoon,
        Every nighte and alle;
     Sit thee down, and put them on;
        And Christe receive thye saule.

     If hosen and shoon thou ne'er gavest nane,
        Every nighte and alle;
     The whinnes shall pricke thee to the bare bane,
        And Christe receive thye saule.

     From Whinny-muir when thou mayst passe,
        Every nighte and alle ;
     To Brigg o' Dread thou comest at laste,
        And Christe receive thye saul

     (A stanza wanting)

     From Brigg o' Dread when thou mayst passe,
        Every nighte and alle;
     To purgatory fire thou comest at laste;
        And Christ receive thye saule.

     If ever thou gavest meat or drinke,
        Every nighte and alle;
     The fire shall never make thee shrinke;
        And Christ receive thye saule.

     If meate or drinke thou never gavest nane,
        Every nighte and alle;
     The fire will burn thee to the bare bane;
        And Christe receive thye saule.

     This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
        Every nighte and alle;
     Fire and sleete, and candle lighte,
        And Christe receive thye saule.