To gie to the puir beggar-man.

27

Out he drank his glass o wine,

Into it he dropt the ring.

28

‘Got ye’t by sea, or got ye’t by land,

Or got ye’t aff a drownd man’s hand?’

29

‘I got na’t by sea, I got na’t by land,

Nor gat I it aff a drownd man’s hand;