Fol. 89 b

For Goddis saik this man askit mercé.

Jop sperd sone; “Off quhat nacioun art thow?”

‘A Scot,’ he said, ‘bot Sothroun gart me bow.

‘In thair seruice, agayn my will full sayr,

‘Bot for my lyff that I remaynit thair.1300

‘To sek fysch I com on this north sid.

‘Be ye a Scott, I wald fayn with yow bid.’

Than he him brocht in presens to Wallace.

The Scottis was blyth quhen thai haiff seyn this cace,