For when my father through disease and age,

Unwieldy was to gouerne well his land,

Because his brother Walter seemed sage,

Hee put the rule thereof into his hand:

Than had my father (you shall vnderstand)

Of lawfull barnes mee and one only other,

Nempt Dauy Rothsay, who was mine elder brother.

3.

This Dauy was prince of Scotland, and so take

Till his aduoutry caused men complayne: