Until they came to the jail-door;

They ca’d the prisoner quietly.

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‘O sleeps thou, wakest thou, Archie, my billy?

O sleeps thou, wakes thou, dear billy?’

‘Sometimes I sleep, sometimes I wake;

But who’s that knows my name so well?’ [said he.]

‘I am thy brother Dicky,’ he says;

‘This night I’m come to borrow thee.’

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