lyke-wake

+The Story+ of this ballad, simple in itself, introduces to us the elaborate question of the ‘lyke-wake,’ or the practice of watching through the night by the side of a corpse.

Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series Frank Sidgwick

Simrock supposes a dead-watch or lyke-wake to be meant.

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

Simrock supposes a dead-watch or lyke-wake to be meant.

Beowulf Robert Sharp 1879

They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that "the deil tinkles at the lyke-wake" of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse. '

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that "the deil tinkles at the lyke-wake" of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse. '

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that "the deil tinkles at the lyke-wake" of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse. '

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801

They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that “the deil tinkles at the lyke-wake” of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse.’

Guy Mannering 1815