But, staunin afore him, Zaccheus said, “Lord! I gie the hauf oʼ my gear to the puir; and gin frae ony ane I hae taen by fause dealin, I gie him back fowr‐fauld!”
And sodgers, too, war speirin at him, “And we, what sal we do?” And he said to them, “Lift the strang haun to nane, naither grip aucht wrangously; and be content wiʼ yere providin.”
Sae, seein we hae aʼ aboot us sic an unco clud oʼ witnesses — drappin ilka taiglement, and the dawtit sin that eithlie rinks us roond, lat us rin, perseverin, iʼ the race set afore us;