I believe "Pavane" by Keith Roberts has the the first verse of the Lyke Wake Dirge as an introduction... This ae neet, this ae neet Any neet and all Fire and fleet and candle leet And Christ receive thy soul It's a magnificent book - alternate history in spades. Roberts was a bit of a b*gger but couldn't half write, especially in his early stuff. Somebody called him the Kipling of science fiction. A lot of Roberts' stories and novels went out of print after his death but quite a few, such as "The Inner Wheel" are available from print on demand specialists - check Amazon or Google.
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