The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vocabulary

And to the ladies he restored again

The bodies of their husbands that were slain,

To do obsequies, as was then the guise.

But it were all too long for to devise

Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales

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It would not do for [King James'] arrival to coincide embarrassingly with [Queen Elizabeth's] obsequies.

Antonia Fraser. Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, p.xxxii (1996)

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"I say orgies, not because it's the common term, because it ain't— obsequies bein' the common term— but because orgies is the right term. Obsequies ain't used in England no more now— it's gone out. We say orgies now in England.

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

King: [...] In filial obligation for some term

  To do obsequious* sorrow.