On the Knok heid, quhar gret mellé was maid,1045

Ay as thai come Jhon Watsone leit thaim in,

And doun to dede with outyn noyis or din:

Na man left thar that was off Ingland born.

The castell weyll thai wesyt on the morn;

[For Jhonstoune send, a man off gud degre:]1050

Secund dochtir forsuth weddyt had he

Off Halidays, nere neuo to Wallace;

Gret captayne [than] thai maid him off that place.

Thai leyffit him thar in till a gud aray,