“Mercy,” he said, “for him that deit on rud,
“Layser to mend! I haiff spilt mekill blud.
[“For my trespas I wald mak sum ramed.”]
Wallace wyst weyll, thocht he war brocht to ded;
And off his lyff sum reskew mycht he mak.155
A bettir purpos sone he can to tak;
And als he rewyt him, for his lyff was ill.
In Latyn tong rycht thus he said him till;
‘I tuk neuir man, that enemy was to me:
‘For Goddis saik thi lyff I grant to the.’160