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Sanct Jhonstoun sone gat throw a jeperté.

Dundé thai tuk, and putt Scottismen to dede;

In Fyff fra thaim was nocht kepyt a sted;

And all the south, fra Cheuyot to the se.585

In to the west thar mycht na succour be;

The worthy lord, that suld haiff gouernyt this,

God had hym tayn, we trow, in lestand blyss:

Hys son Walter, that bot a child than was,

Trew men him tuk, and couth in Arrane pass.590