Wallace; or, the Life and Acts of Sir William Wallace, of Ellerslie

Quhen Wallace saw thai had him at inwy, 295 Langar to byd he coud than nocht apply. Bettir him thocht in Scotland for to be, And awntur tak othir to leiff or de. Till help his a...

It appears that this knight belonged to the county of Ross; and it has been conjectured that he was a son or brother of the Earl of Ross, who was at this time a prisoner in Engl...

This was a cell or priory of the Cluniacenses in Kyle, Ayrshire, depending on Paisley. Spottiswoode writes it _Feale_. “Our history,” he says, “only remarks, that the prior of t...

So little is known, with respect to Henry the Minstrel, that I can scarcely pretend to add any thing to the meagre account which has been given of him by former writers. As we c...

Wallace hym selff was sekyr gyd that nycht; 1375 Till Dunbertane the way he chesyt rycht. Or it was day, for than the nycht was lang, On to the toun full prewaly thai gang. Meki...

“Richard de _Lundie_, _Lundin_, or _London_, was a powerful baron in the shire of Fife. He brought five hundred men to Wallace’s aid in the encounter with Macfadyan near Craigmo...

He also mentions a volume in the Cotton Library, marked Claud. D. VII. in which the 13th article is a chronicle written, or rather compiled, with additions, by a Canon of Lanerc...

Allace, Scotland, to quhom sall thow compleyn! Allace, fra payn quha sall the now restreyn! 1110 Allace, thi help is fasslie brocht to ground, Thi [best] chyftane in braith band...

The following line, as printed in the text, which is the concluding one of the stanza, is totally omitted. Most probably it had been wanting in the MS. from which Ramsay copied;...

Willyham Wallace, or he was man of armys, Gret pitté thocht that Scotland tuk sic harmys. Mekill dolour it did hym in hys mynde; For he was wyss, rycht worthy, wicht and kynd: I...

The dyrk regioun apperand wondyr fast, In Nouember, quhen October was past, The day faillit, throu the rycht courss worthit schort; Till banyst men that is no gret comfort, With...

Wallace commaund the ost suld pass thair way To the Tor wod, in all the haist thai may; Hym selff and Graym, and Lawdir, turnyt in 305 Betwex battaillys, pryss [and] prowys for...

At the Corheid full fayne thai wald haif beyne; Bot Inglissmen weyll has thair purposs seyne. In playne battaill thai folowid hardely; In dangir thus thai held thaim awfully. He...

Bot Sotheroun men durst her no castell hald, Bot left Scotland, befor as I yow tald, 1840 Saiff ane Morton, a capdane fers and fell, That held Dundé. Than Wallace wald nocht due...

Wallace tranountyt on the secund day; Fra York thai passyt rycht in a gud aray. Northwest thai past in battaill buskyt boun, Thar lugeyng tuk besyd Northallyrtoun, 570 And cryit...

Tuelff hundreth yer, tharto nynté and sewyn, Fra Cryst wes born the rychtwiss king off hewyn, Wilyham Wallace in to gud liking gais, In Laynrik toun amang his mortaill fais. 110...

Quhen Wallace saw he chapyt was away, Vpon Annand agayn returnyt thai Till Edynburch, with outyn tary mor; Put in Crawfurd that captane was befor; Off heretage he had in Mannuel...

The rede blasonys thai had born in to wer; 265 The toun was sone in till a sudane fer. The Rede Reiffar thai saw was at thair hand, The quhilk throu strenth mycht nayn agayne hi...

The Sotheron drew to thar lugyng but mar; Four thousand haill that nycht was in till Ayr. In gret bernyss, biggyt with out the toun, 335 The justice lay, with mony bald barroun....

In September, the humyll moneth suette, Quhen passyt by the hycht was off the hette, Wictaill and froyte ar rypyt in aboundance, Fol. 14 a As God ordans to mannys gouernance. Sa...

Schir Amar Wallang haistit him full fast, In till Ingland with his haill houshald past; Bothwell he left, was Murrays heretage, 1095 And tuk him than bot till King Eduuardis wag...

On the gret ost thir partice fast can draw, Fol. 39 b Cumand to thaim, out off the south, thai saw: 530 Thre hundreth men, in till thar armour cler, The gaynest way to thaim app...

In Richmwnt schyr thai fand a gret boundans, Breid, ayll and wyn, with othir purweans; Brak parkis doun, slew bestis mony ane, 1005 Off wild and tayme, forsuth thai sparyt nane....

With thar serwandis fra Ricardtoun thai raid To Mawchtlyne mur, and schort tyme thar abaid; 60 For freindis thaim tauld, was bound wndir trewage, That Fenweik was for Perseys ca...

His leiff he tuk at heris of the toune; To Meffane wode rycht glaidly maid him boune. 420 Hiss horn he hynt, and bauldly loud can blaw, Hiss men him hard, and tharto sone couth...

Thus tuk he leyff with owtyn langar abaid: 435 In Dundaff mur that sammyn nycht he raid. Schir Jhone the Grayme, quhilk lord wes of that land, Ane agyt knycht had made nane othi...

Be that, Ruwan and Ramsay off renown, Be a trew Scot, that past to Sanct Jhonstoun, Thaim warnyng maid, that Sewart folowit fast Apon Wallace; than war thai sayr agast. Owt off...

The brym battaill, braithly on athir sid, Gret rerd thar raiss all sammyn quhar thai ryd. The sayr semblé, quhen thai to gidder met, Feill strakis thar sadly on athir set. 210 P...

At euirilk part a stalwart wach he maid; 755 Fermyt a sege, and stedfastly abaid. Byschop Synclar in till all haist him dycht, Com out off Bute with symly men to sycht; Owt off...

The queyn fand weyll, langage no thing hyr bet; Scho trowit with gold that he mycht be our set. 1390 Thre thousand pound, off fynest gold so red, Scho gert be brocht to Wallace...

In Feueryher befell the sammyn cace, That Inglissmen tuk trewis with Wallace. This passyt our till Marche till end was socht. The Inglismen kest all the wayis thai mocht, With s...

In the Edinburgh Evening Courant of May 19, 1817, it is said that “the statue of Sir William Wallace, erected by the Earl of Buchan at Dryburgh, was designed exactly from the au...

Barrell heryng and wattir thai him gawe, Quhar he was set in to that vgly cawe. Sic fude for him was febill to commend. Than said he thus; ‘All weildand God, resawe ‘My petows s...

The later day off August fell this cace; 695 For the reskew, thus ordanyt wicht Wallace, Off Sanct Jhonstoun, that Sothroun occupyit. Fast towart Tay thai passyt and aspyit; Or...

Dunkan off Lorne Gilmychall fra thaim send, A spy to be, for he the contré kend. Be our party was passit Straithfulan, The small fute folk began to irk ilkane; And horss, off fo...

The sayr trawaill, the ernystfull besynes, The feill labour had in mony place, To wyn the land at the gud king him gaiff, In till his ryng he wald no Sotheroun saiff. In Gyan la...

In Aperill the one and twenty day, The hie calend, thus Cancer, as we say, The lusty tym off Mayus fresche cummyng, Celestiall gret blythnes in to bryng; Fol. 76 a Pryncypaill m...

“The present Publishers have just reproduced, in a neat and portable form, ‘The Bruce,’ a work which has justly been regarded as the Æneid of Scotland. It is the earliest heroic...