Ay next the wode Wallace gert leiff his horss;

Syne on his feit yeid to the merkat corss.

The Persye was in the castell of Ayr

With Ingliss men, gret nowmber and repayr:

Our all ye toune rewlyng on thair awne wiss,25

Till mony Scot thai did full gret suppriss.

[Aboundandely Wallace amang thaim yeid;]

The rage of youth maid him to haf no dreid.

A churll thai had, that felloune byrdyngis bar;

Excedandlye he wald lyft mekill mar30