He suld haf wonnen Saynt Seuer & Rions,
Tolouse & Tolousan, Burdeus with his somons.
WALES wo! þe be, þe fende þe confound.
Scotland whi ne mot I se be sonken to Helle ground?
Was neuer in þam both terme set ne stounde, [De Wallia & Scocia, & falsitate eorum.]
þat þei discorded wroth, þe pes tion in þam founde.
In Wales said beforn alle day is mischance,
& Gascoyn now is lorn, þorgh treson of France.
What did Jon Baliol, þat Edward did auance,
Bot falsly, as a fole, bigan a disceyuance?
þorgh conseile of hise he sent vnto þe pape,
& controued a quaintise, a new falsnes did schape,
& said Scotlond suld be, þorgh right & olde setnesse,
Holden of his se, & of non els þat es,
& Edward of Inglond, þorgh force & myght,
In his homage him bond, ageyn his wille & right.
"We ask ȝow grace of þis, assoyle him of þat othe,
"þat he did maugre his, to wrong was him lothe,
"Bot he mot quitely go in world where he fore,
"& frely passe him fro, fro whom þat he to suore.
[Le pape Celestine trop desauise Assolt le Rey descoce par lettre enbulle, Gall.] þe pape Celestyn, of non avisement,
With letter bulled fyn assoyled to Scotlond sent.
Whan þis bulle was brouht home bi messengres,
A vileyine þami þouht, to mak þam duze pers,
