In Pykarté sone message thai couth send; 545 Off Wallace com thai tald it till ane end. Off Glosister, captane off Calyss was, The hardy erll; and maid him for to pass In Ingland sone; and syne to London went. Off Wallace deid he tald in the parlement. 550 Sum playnly [said] that Wallace brak the pess. Wysmen said Nay, and prayit thaim for to cess. Lord Bowmont said; “He tuk bot for Scotland, “And nocht for Frans, that sall ye wndyrstand. “Gyff our endentour spekis for ony mair, 555 “He has doyne wrang, the suth ye may declar.” Wodstok ansuerd; ‘Schyr, ye haiff spokyn weill. ‘Bot contrar resone that taill is euirilkdeill: ‘Gyff yon be he that band for him and his, ‘May na man say bot he has wrocht amyss. 560 ‘For pryncipaly he band with ws the trew, ‘And now agayn begynnys a malice new. ‘Schyr king,’ he said, ‘gyff ye think euir to mak ‘On Scotland wer, on hand now ye sall tak, ‘Quhill he is out, or ellis it helpis nocht.’ 565 As Wodstok said, the haill consaill has wrocht; Power thai raissyt on Scotland for to ryd, Be land and se; thai wald no langar byd. Thar land ost thai rayit weyll in deid; Thar wantgard tuk the hardy erll to leid 570 Off Glosister, that off wer had gret feill; Off Longcastell the duk demanyt weill The mydillward; on to the se thai send Schyr Jhon Sewart, that weyll the northland kend. The knycht Wallang befor the ost in raid; 575 In sic a way wyth ewyll Scottis men he maid, Mony castellis he gert sone yoldin be Till Inglissmen, with outyn mar mellé. Or the best wyst, that it was wer in playn, Entryt he was in to Bothwell agane. 580 Schyr Jhon Sewart, that com in be the se, Fol. 82 a Sanct Jhonstoun sone gat throw a jeperté. Dundé thai tuk, and putt Scottismen to dede; In Fyff fra thaim was nocht kepyt a sted; And all the south, fra Cheuyot to the se. 585 In to the west thar mycht na succour be; The worthy lord, that suld haiff gouernyt this, God had hym tayn, we trow, in lestand blyss: Hys son Walter, that bot a child than was, Trew men him tuk, and couth in Arrane pass. 590 Adam Wallace than wyst off no supplé, Till Rawchlé went, and Lindsay off Craggé; Gud Robert Boid maid no residens; For haisty desait, thai tuk thaim to defens. Schyr Jhon the Graym in Dundaff mycht nocht bid, 595 Succour he socht in to the forest off Clid. The knycht Sewart, a schyrreff maid in Fyff Schyr Amer Brim; and gaiff, for term off lyff, The landis haill that Wallang aucht befor. Rychard Lundy had gret dreid off thar schoyr; 600 He likyt nocht for to cum to thar pess, For thi in Fyff thai wald nocht lat him cess. To pass our Tay as than it mycht nocht be, For Inglissmen so rewllyt that cuntré. Owt off the land he staw away be nycht, 605 Auchtene with him that worthy war and wycht; And als his sone, that was off tendyr eild; Bot eftir sone he couth weill wapynnys weild. At Sterlyng bryg, quhar at the wach wes set, Thar passyt he away with outyn let. 610 In Dundaff mur Schyr Jhon the Graym he socht; A woman tald, as than befor was wrocht; And till a strenth he drew him on the morn. Laynrik was tayn with young Thomas off Thorn; So Lundy thair mycht mak no langar remayn: 615 Besouth Tynto lugis thai maid in playn. Schyr Jhon the Graym gat wit that he was thair; Till him he past with outyn wordis mar. Wallang gart bryng fra Carlele cariage, To stuff Bothwell with wyn and gud warnage. 620 Lundy and Graym gat wyt off that awaill, Rycht sudanly thai maid thaim till assaill: Fyfty thai war off nobill chewalry, Agayn four scor off Ingliss cumpany. Ane Skelton than kepyt the careage, 625 All Brankstewat that was his heretage. Lundy and Graym met with the squier wicht; Feill Inglissmen to ded derffly thai dycht. Sexté was slayn apon the tothir sid, And fyve off Scottis, so bauldly thai abid. 630 Gret gud thai wan, bath gold and othir ger, Wittayll and horss that hapnyt in that wer. Fol. 82 b Syn thai haiff seyn weyll lang thai mycht nocht lest In to that land, tharfor thai thocht it best To seik sum place, in strenth that thai mycht bid, 635 For Sotheron men had plenyst on ilk sid. Lundeis luge thai left upon a nycht; In the Lennox the way thai passyt rycht Till erll Malcom, that kepyt that cuntré Fra Inglissmen, with help off thar supplé. 640 Cetoun and Lyll in to the Bass thai baid; For Sotheroun folk so gret mastryss had maid, That all the south was tayn in to thar hand. Gud Hew the Hay was send in to Ingland, And vthir ayris, to presoune at thar will. 645 The northland lordis, saw na help cum thaim till, A squier Guthré amang thaim ordand thai, To warn Wallace in all the haist he may. Out off Arbroth he passit to the se.