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SCHIR WILLIAM WALLACE.
Till erle Patrik thai gaif full gret gardoun.
For the frendschipe king Eduuard with hym fand,
Protector haile he maid hym of Scotland. 140
That office than he brukyt hot schort tyme.
I may nocht now putt all thair deid in ryme;
Off cornikle quhat suld I tary lang ?
To Wallace agayne now breiffly will I gange.
Scotland was lost quhen he was bot a child, 145
And our set throuch with our ennemyss wilde.
His fadyr Malcom in the Lennox fled;
His eldest sone thedir he with hym led.
Hys modyr fled with him fra Elrisle,
Till Gowry past, and duelt in Kilspynde. 150
The knycht hir fadyr thedyr he thaim sent
Till his wncle, that with full gud entent
In Gowry duelt, and had gud lewyng thar;
Ane agyt man, the quhilk resawyt thaim far.
In till Dunde Wallace to scule thai send, 155
Fol. 2 b Quhill he of witt full worthely was kend.
Thus he conteynde in till hys tendyr age;
In armys syne did mony hie waslage,
Quhen Saxons blud into this realm cummyng,
Wyrkand the will of Eduuard that fals king, 160
Mony gret wrang thai wrocht in this regioune,
Distroyed our lordys, and brak thar byggynnys doun.
Both wiffis, wedowis, thai tuk all at thair will,
Nonnys, madyns, quham thai likit to spill.
King Herodis part thai playit in to Scotland, 165
Off Jong childer that thai befor thaim fand.
The byschoprykis, that war of gretast waile,
Thai tuk in hand of thar archybyschops haile :
142. (thair) ye.
143. On cronicklis.
145. (a) ane—a mark of A., being later than
MS.
146. All haill ouir set with.
i53- thair.
155. Then to Dundie.
157. (conteynde) continewit.
158. mony vassalage.
159. When Saxoun blude in this regioun couth
ring.
160 (IVyrkand) Markand — a misprint; of
that unrichteous king.
164. (spill) spil.