Willie's Lyke-Wake

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Willie's Lyke-Wake is Child ballad 25.

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Willie sets up his wake and lies in his winding cloth. His love discovers this and pleads with her father to let her go. When he does, and she enters the room, Willie rouses himself and declares that he will marry her at once.

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