Quhen Wallace men was weill to gydder met,515
“Gud freyndis,” he sayd, “ye knaw that thar wes set
“Sic law as this now in to Glaskow toune,
“Be byschope Beik, and Persye off renoun.
“Tharfor I will in haist we thidder fair;
“Off our gud kyn [sum] part ar lossyt thair.”520
He gert full sone the burges till him caw,
And gaiff commaund in generall to thaim aw.
In kepyng thai suld tak the houss off Ayr,
And “hald it haill quhill tyme that we her mayr;