“Off him I held neuir a fur off land.”—V. 18.
That Corspatrick, Earl of Dunbar, used this provoking language, appears highly probable; as it is certain from other documents that, “when summoned by the guardian of Scotland, to attend a convention at Perth,” he “contemptuously refused. Blind Harrie is supported by the Tower Records.” Caledonia, II. 246.
I need scarcely say, that the earl had given Wallace this contemptuous designation, as being a native of the district of Kyle in Ayrshire.
“In lyff or dede, in faith, him sall we haiff,
“Or ger him grant quhom he haldis for his lord;
“Or ellis war schaym in story to racord.”—V. 44.
In MS. schapin; but undoubtedly from inadvertency. It had perhaps been written schaym.
In till Gorkhelm erll Patrik leiffit at rest.
For mar power Wallace past in the west.—V. 129.