Wallace trowyt weill, and he his gossep twyss,
That he wald nocht, be no maner off wyss,1050
Him to betrayss for all Scotland so wyd.
Ane ayth off him he askit in that tid.
Thar wantit wit; quhat suld his aythis mor?
Forsuorn till him he was lang tym befor.
The ayth he maid; Wallace com in his will;1055
Rycht frawdfully all thus schawyt him till.
“Gossep,” he said, “as presoner thai mon yow se,
“Or thai throu force wyll ellis tak yow fra me.”