Note 565 — Chapter IV · RISE OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
Reading edition
McLennan, op. cit., I, 41, 42, as evidence of wife-capture, gives the following stanzas, taken from Grey's Travels, II, 313:
"Wherefore came you, Weerang, In my beauty's pride, Stealing cautiously, Like the tawny boreang, On an unwilling bride? 'Twas thus you stole me From one who loved me tenderly. A better man he was than thee, Who having forced me thus to wed, Now so oft deserts my bed. Yang, yang, yang, yoh. "Oh, where is he who won My youthful heart; Who oft used to bless And called me loved one? You, Wearang, tore apart From his fond caress Her whom you desert and shun; Out upon the faithless one! Oh, may the Boyl-yas bite and tear Her, whom you take your bed to share. Yang, yang, yang, yoh."