“Allace,” he said, “the warld is contrar lik!210
“This land suld be yon tyrandis heretage,
“That cummys thus to stroy his awn barnage.
“Sa I war fre off it that I said ayr,
“I wald forswer Scotland for euirmair;
“Contrar the Bruce I suld reskew thaim now, 215
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“Or de tharfor, to God I mak a wow.”
The gret debait in Wallace wit can waid,
Betwix kyndnes and wyllfull wow he maid.