Lenten Lamentations
Bitter Lamentations

This shutting up of houses was at first counted a very cruel and unchristian method, and the poor people so confined made bitter lamentations.

Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations."

In her book The Cult of the Cat, Patricia Dale-Green states that, "The cat's body was placed in a linen sheet and carried amidst bitter lamentations by the bereaved to a sacred house where it was treated with drugs and spices by an embalmer".