Than ony twa that thai amang thaim fand;
And als be wss a sport he tuk in hand:
[He bar a sasteing in a boustous poille:]
On his braid bak of ony wald he thoile,
Bot for a grot, als fast as he mycht draw.35
Quhen Wallas herd spek of that mery saw,
He likyt weill at that mercat to be,
And for a strak he bad him grottis thre.
The churll grantyt, of that proferr was fayn.
To pay the siluer Wallas was full bayne.40