weel-a-day

Updated: May 15, 2025

Now Dougal looked ay waur and waur when night was coming, and was ay the last to gang to his bed, whilk was in a little round just opposite the chamber of dais, whilk his master occupied while he was living, and where he now lay in state, as they caa'd it, weel-a-day!

Sir Walter Scott - Redgauntlet