“Part off your drynk, or sum gud I wald haiff.”

The captane [than] a schrewed ansuer him gaiff;

‘Thow semys a Scot wnlikly, ws to spy;1425

‘Thow may be ane off Wallace cumpany:

‘Contrar our king he is ryssyn agane;

‘The land off Fyff he has rademyt in plane.

‘Thou sall her byd quhill we wyt how it be;

‘Be thow off his, thou sall be hyngyt hye.’1430

Wallace than thocht it was na tym to stand;

His nobill suerd he gryppyt son in hand;