The king hard tell weill chapyt was Wallace;

Send for him sone, and prayit him for to be

Off his housshald, so leyff in gud saufté.140

For weill he saw thai had him at inwye;

Still with him selff he gert him bid forthi.

Twa yeris thus with myrth Wallace abaid

Still in to Frans, and mony gud jornay maid.

The king him plessed in all his gudly mane,145

Fra him he thocht he suld nocht part agayn.

Lordys and ladiis honoryd him reuerently,