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Twenty thousand [off] lele legis off France;

Hys brothir thaim led, was duk of Orlyans.

Throu Gyan land in rayid battaill thai raid,535

To folow Wallace, and maid but litill baid

For Frans supplé, to help thaim in thair rycht.

Ner Burdeous, or thai our tuk him mycht,

Gud Wallace was, and Thomas had in playn;

For sum men tald, that Burdeous, with gret mayn,540

With in schort tym thocht battaill for to geyff.