Weel, this kind o' wark was carried on for mair than a year; and a' that I could say or do, Margaret and him were never separate; till at last he drapped off comin' to the house, and our daughter did naething but seigh and greet.

Soon after she gan heark, Cockes crow, and dogs bark; She arose, and thither wold; Near and nearer, she gan behold, Walls and houses fell the seigh, A church, with steeple fair and high; Then was there nother street no town, But an house of religion; An order of nuns, well y-dight, To servy God both day and night.

She looked up, and by her seigh An asche, by her, fair and high, Well y-boughed, of mickle price; The body was hollow, as many one is.

The church door be undid, And seigh anon, in the stede,[50]