welladay

What expression would you be likely to use, instead of "welladay"?

Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature Ontario. Ministry of Education

But now, welladay, I am deprived of those who took delight in me, because I have slaves instead of friends as my companions; I am robbed of my once delightful intercourse with them, because I discern no vestige of goodwill towards me in their looks.

Hiero 2007

Goes she now with a plain wastcoat! alas and welladay! doth her feathers begin to hang thus!

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

P: And morning found those who had coveted his place but yesterday crying: Ah, welladay!

Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902

“Ah, welladay, do what we can for him,” said Trim, maintaining his point, “the poor soul will die.”

Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884

"Ah, welladay, do what we can for him," said Trim, maintaining his point, "the poor soul will die."

Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867

"Ah, welladay!" that sexton gray unto himself did cry,

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

"Ah, welladay!" that sexton gray unto himself did cry,

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

_ Welladay, welladay! one of my daughters is big with bastard, and she laid at her gascoins most unmercifully! every stripe she had,

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665

"There are those who would teach you for the love of it-welladay, you've made up your mind.

Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998