Dount saint eglise defendre le quint dener mettrait.
Des Escoz chaitifs nule aime i parlait:
Demorez sunt suz garde en autel plait,
Cum avaunt estaient, Dunbar les achascait.
Various Readings.—705. les dait, C., R. 1.—713. Et sainte, C., R. 1. surfait, R. 1.—718. sunt uncore suz g. en a. esplait, C. sont en garde mult à lour deshait, R. 1. tut à lour desheit, R. 2.—719. This line ends in C., and R. 1 and 2, with the words escotez ke ço dayt, and the English lines following are omitted.
For thar wer thai bal brend, 720
He kauged ham thidre kend,
aut dreved to dote.
For Scottes at Dunbar