His commaund thai did in all the haist thai can.
Wallace desyryt to talk mor with this man,
Sadly he sperd; “Off quhat land was thou born?”
‘Off France,’ quoth he, ‘and my eldris beforn;
‘And thar we had sumpart off heretage:185
‘Yet fers fortoun thus brocht me in a rage.’
Wallace sperd; “How com thow to this lyff?”
‘Forsuth,’ he said, ‘bot throw a sudan stryff.
‘So hapnyt me, in to the kingis presens,
‘Our raklesly to do our gret offens.190