‘Rycht few may kep, quhar nayn is to assaill.’

“Wallace,” he said, “tharoff merwell haiff I;

“A tyran ryngis, in ire full cruelly,

“Apon the se, that gret sorow has wrocht;

“Mycht we him get, it suld not be for nocht.340

“Born off this land, a natyff man to me;

“Tharfor on ws the grettar harme dois he.”

Than Thomas quok, and changyt contenans;

He hard the king his ewill deidis awans.

Wallace beheld, and fenyeit in a part;345