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And sae, in gude troth, it will be a puir lykewake, unless your honour sends us something to keep us cracking." "You shall have some whisky," answered Oldbuck, "the rather that you have preserved the proper word for that ancient custom of watching the dead. You observe, Hector, this is genuine Teutonic, from the Gothic Leichnam, a corpse.
And sae, in gude troth, it will be a puir lykewake, unless your honour sends us something to keep us cracking." "You shall have some whisky," answered Oldbuck, "the rather that you have preserved the proper word for that ancient custom of watching the dead. You observe, Hector, this is genuine Teutonic, from the Gothic Leichnam, a corpse.
They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that 'the deil tinkles at the lykewake' of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse."
'Ay, ay, dead enough, said another; 'but here's what shall give him a rousing lykewake. So saying, he fetched a keg of spirits from a corner, while Meg hastened to display pipes and tobacco. From the activity with which she undertook the task, Brown conceived good hope of her fidelity towards her guest.
I am at Strasburg, with the Kaisar and the Archduke, and am not here till we ride in, in purple and in pall by the time the good folk have hung out their arras, and donned their gold chains, and conned their speeches, and mounted their mules." "Well that their speeches are not over the lykewake of his kingly kaisarly highness," gravely returned Sir Kasimir. "Ha! Thou sawest?
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