157. Gude Wallace.
P. 265. From C. K. Sharpe’s “first collection,” p. 18.
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“An old song shewing how Sir Wm Wallace killed thirty Englishmen.” This copy resembles C.
‘Decencey’ in 82 is the reciter’s rendering of the bencite (benedicite) of C 62.
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‘I wish I had a king,’ brave Wallace he said,
That every brave Scotsman might leave by his oun,
For between me and my sovreign leige
I think I see some ill [seed] sowen.’