Brewer's: Willie-Wastle

(the child's game). Willie Wastle was governor of Hume Castle, Haddington. When Cromwell sent a summons to him to surrender, he replied -

Here I, Willie Wastle, Stand firm in my castle, And all the dogs in the town Shan't pull Willie Wastle down.

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