It's been a long time, but thanks for posting.

This would have been a good song for last night - Halloween. No doubt it would be a good idea to excise some of the 40 verses, and if children are present to skip the full-frontal nudity round about verse 31.

FYI, it should be laidly, not Laidley. laidly = loathly, ugly, repulsive.

And today we would call a worm a dragon. A child is, among other things, a youth of noble birth. (The spellings childe and chylde are modern.)

Was there ever a King Ida? The name sounds more like something from the dark ages - cf Horsa and Offa.

Got to run.