Scottish Text Society publications > Third series > Actis and Deidis of Schir William Wallace, 1570

No. 15. v.
Bk. xi. 354-397
fol. 167 r-167 v.
Duodecima
Knaulege to get yai fet ane fubtile cace
Thay leit him pas with thing yat he had bocht
Syne eftir fone in al ye haift yai moch[t]
To harnes geid ye power of ye tovne
[Aucht hudreth men] with butellar maid yame [boun]
[Followit on dreich, quhill yat yis man come hame]
Wallace him faw and faid he feruit blame [360]
In my fleping ane fell vifionne me tald
Till inglifmen yat yow fuld me half fald
Craufurd him faid he had bene turment fair
With inglifmen yat had him at difpare
Thairfore rife vp and fone fum fuccour fe
I dreid full fair yair fet wachis on me
The wourthy fcottis yai graith yame in gud [weid]
Thair wapnis tuke fen of yat hous yai ^eid
Thus fuddandly yir fele futhroun yai faw
To few yai war to fecht agane yame aw. [37°]
That keynly come with 300 g butlar ye knyc[ht.]
Than Wallace faid ane plane land is nocht ric[ht.]
Bot Elchok park yat is neir heir befide,
The firft fail3e we think yare to abide
Nyntene yai war and craufurd with gude will
The tuenty man the nowmer to fulfill
The park yai tuke Wallace ane place has fene
Of grete holing yat grew baith heich and gren[e.]
With thwortour treis ane maner of ftrenth m[aid he] [167 v]
Or yat war wonnyn yai trovit to gar fele dee [380]
The wod was thik bot litill of breid and lenth
Had yai had met yai thocht to hald yat ftrenth
The inglifmen paft to craufurdis place
Fand in ye bern ye lugeing of Wallace
Than craufurdis wife in hand yai haue tane
And afkit hir quhat way ye fcottis is gane
Richt weill yai trowit yat Wallace fuld yair be
Of france in tay he was cuin throw ye fe
Scho wald nocht tell for boift nor 3it reward
Than butellar faid our lang yow has bene fpar[d] [390]
Thair with he grew in matelent and ire
And gart yame big ane braid brym fire
The futhroun fwore yairin fcho fuld brynt be
Than Wallace faid fcho fal nocht end for me
Grete fyn it war 3one faikles wicht to fla
Or fcho fuld end in faith yare fuld de ma
He left ye ftrenth [an]d ye plane feild can ta