To Wallace furth now schortlye will I ga.760

Dunkan off Lorne Gilmychall fra thaim send,

A spy to be, for he the contré kend.

Be our party was passit Straithfulan,

The small fute folk began to irk ilkane;

And horss, off fors, behuffyt for to faill.765

Than Wallace thocht that cumpany to waill.

“Gud men,” he said, “this is nocht meit for ws;

“In brokyn ray and we cum on thaim thus,

“We may tak scaith, and harme our fayis bot small;