By thirty and by three;

Sweet Willie, wha used to be foremost man,

Was the hindmost a’ but three.

19.

19.2 ‘twa-fald o’er a tree,’ bent double on a stick.

O he cam cripple, and he cam blind,

Cam twa-fald o’er a tree:

‘O be he cripple, or be he blind,

This very same man is he.’

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