Even as fast as he may drie;
Dickie’s come on for Puddinburn,
Where there was thirty Armstrongs and three.
17
‘What’s this comd on me!’ quo Dickë,
‘What meakle wae’s this happend on me,’ quo he,
‘Where here is but ae innocent fool,
And there is thirty Armstrongs and three!’
18
Yet he’s comd up to the hall among them all;