“Thus stuff our land, I fynde may nocht weill be;235

“We mon ger bryng our wittaill be the se.

“Bot loss our men, it helpis ws rycht nocht;

“Thar kyne may ban that euir we hydder socht.”

Lat I thaim thus, blamand thar sory chance,

And mar to sper of Scottis mennys gouernance.240

Quhen Wallace had weyle wenquist to the playne

The falss terand that had his fadyr slayne;

His brothyr als, quhilk was a gentill knycht,

Fol. 12 a