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‘Blaw, blaw, bauld beggar,’ he said,

‘Blaw, and fear nae doubt;

I wish you may gie sic a blast

Till your eyne loup out.’

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Then Robin he gave a skip,

And he skipped frae a stick till a stane;

‘By the hand of my body,’ quo the high sheriff,

‘You are a supple auld man.’