“Bot thi fers mynd, wylfull and wariable,

“With gret lordschip thow coud nocht so byd stable;580

“And wyllfull witt, for to mak Scotland fre;

“God likis nocht that I haiff tane on me.

“Fer worthyar off byrth than I was born,

“Throuch my desyr wyth hungyr ar forlorn.

“I ask at God thaim to restor agayn;585

“I am the causs, I suld haiff all the payn.”

Quhill studeand thus, quhill flitand with him sell,

Quhill at the last apon slepyng he fell.