“Our land stud thre yer desolate but king,
“Kepyt full weyll at concord in gud stait.
“Throuch twa clemyt, thar hapnyt gret debait,1330
“So ernystfully, accord thaim nocht thai can.
“Your king thai ast for to be thair ourman.
“Slely he slayd throuch strenthis off Scotland;
“The kynryk syne he tuk in his awn hand.
“He maid a kyng agayn our rychtwyss law;1335
“For he off him suld hald the regioun aw.
“Contrar this band was all the haill barnage,