Wallace wyst weyll, thocht he war brocht to ded;
And off his lyff sum reskew mycht he mak.—V. 153.
The passage, as here given from the MS., is evidently deficient in sense. It is given more intelligibly in Edit. 1594.
For my trespas I wald mak sum remeid,
Monie saikles I haue gart put to deide.
Wallace wist weill, thocht he to deith was brocht,
Fra thame to chaip on na wyse micht he nocht.
And of his lyfe sum reskew micht he mak,
Ane better purpois syne sone than can he tak.