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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