“So gud of hand is nayne this warld within.
“Had he tayne pess, and beyne our kingis man,
“The haill empyr he mycht haiff conquest than.
“Gret harme it is, our knychtis that ar ded;510
“We mon ger se for othir in thair sted.
“I trow nocht yeit at Wallace losyt be:
“Our clerkys sayis, he sall ger mony de.”
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The messynger said; ‘All that suth has beyne;
‘Mony hundreth, that cruell war and keyne,515