‘I dar awow, that yoldyn is my hand

‘To the best man that beltis him with brand.250

‘Forsuth,’ he said, ‘this blythis me mekill mor,

‘Than off floryng ye gaiff me sexty scor.’

Wallace ansuerd; “Sen thou art her throw chance,

“My purpos is, be this wiage, in France;

“And to the king sen I am boun to pass,255

“To my reward thi peess I think to ass.”

‘Pess I wald haiff [fane] of my rychtwiss king;

‘And no langar in to that realm to ryng,