The squier fell: of him thar was na mar.

His men folowid on Wallace wondyr sar:

The press was thik, and cummerit thaim full fast.

Wallace was spedy, and gretlye als agast;230

The bludy knyff bar drawin in his hand,

He sparyt nane that he befor him fand.

He knew the hous his eyme had lugit in;

Thedir he fled, for owt he mycht nocht wyn.

The gude wyff than within the closs saw he;235

And, “Help,” he cryit, “for him that deit on tre;