Off Inglissmen yeit sum thing spek I will.

A messynger sone throw the contré yeid,

To lord Persie thai tald this fellone deid;

Kynclewyn was brynt, brokyn, and castyn doun,485

The captayn dede off it and Saynt Jhonstoun;

The Loran als, at Schortwod schawis scheyn;

In to that land, gret sorow has beyne seyn

Throuch wicht Wallace, that all this deid has done;

“The toune he spyit, and that forthocht we sone.490

“Butler is slayne, with douchty men and deyr.”