3 And quoʼ he till them, “Tak nocht for yere journey; naither staff nor wallet, nor breid nor siller; nor to hae twa coats.
And he caʼd till him the Twalʼ, and begude to send them oot, twa and twa; and he gied them pooer ower foul spirits;
And he says to his disciples, “Be na putten‐to anent yere life — what ye may eat? nor yet for the body, what ye may be buskit wiʼ.
“Noo, gin the foggage (whilk grows the day iʼ the park, and is cuisten intil the oven the morn), God sae brawlie busks, hoo mickle mair you, ye oʼ smaʼ faith?
And he said to them, “What time I sent ye oot, wantin purse, and wallet, and shoon — failed ye oʼ onything?” And they said, “Oʼ naething!”
And he answerʼt, “He that has twa coats, lat him bestow on him that has nane: and he that has meat, lat him dae the same.”
And Levi made a great feast for him in his hoose; and a great company oʼ tax‐men and ithers sat doon wiʼ him.
“And intil whatna hoose ye may enter, bide ye inʼt, and frae thar gang yere ways again.
Nae ane serʼin as a sodger taigles his sel iʼ the affairs oʼ his “leevin”; that he may please him wha summoned him as a sodger.