‘And now agayn begynnys a malice new.

‘Schyr king,’ he said, ‘gyff ye think euir to mak

‘On Scotland wer, on hand now ye sall tak,

‘Quhill he is out, or ellis it helpis nocht.’565

As Wodstok said, the haill consaill has wrocht;

Power thai raissyt on Scotland for to ryd,

Be land and se; thai wald no langar byd.

Thar land ost thai rayit weyll in deid;

Thar wantgard tuk the hardy erll to leid570

Off Glosister, that off wer had gret feill;