‘O I would een gie twenty shillins

To ony sic crooked carle as thee

That wad find me out Gude Wallace;

For ay that traitor I lang to see.’

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‘Haud out your hand,’ quo Gude Wallace,

‘I doubt your money be not gude;

If ye’ll gie ither twenty shillins,

It neer shall bide ye anither bode.’

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