357. The funeral yell, etc. The MS. has "'T is woman's scream, 't is childhood's wail." Yell may at first seem too strong a word here, but it is in keeping with the people and the times described. Besides Scott was familiar with old English poetry, in which it was often used where a modern writer would choose another word. Cf. Surrey, Virgil's AEneid: "With wailing great and women's shrill yelling;" and Gascoigne, De Profundis: "From depth of doole wherein my soule dooth dwell, ........... O gracious God, to thee I crie and yell."
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