And said, False ‘carel,’ quit thy staff,
Or I shall be thy priest. {107}
His pyke-staff they have taken him frae,
And stuck it in the green,
He was full loath to let it gae,
An better might it been.
The beggar was the feardest man
Of any that e’er might be,
To win away no way he can,
Nor help him with his tree.