XXXIV.
In the takinnyng of treuth and constance kend,
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The colour of asure, ane hevinliche hewe, [ane om.]
For thi to the Dowglas that senȝe was send,
As lelest, all Scotland fra scaith to reskewe.
The siluer in the samyn half, trewly to tend,
Is cleir corage in armes, quha the richt knewe.
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The bludy hart that thai bere the Bruss at his end,
With his estatis in the steid, and nobillis ynewe,
Addit in thar armes for honorable causs,
As his tenderest and deir,
In his maist misteir;
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As salbe said to yow heir [A. thow.]
In to schort sawis.
XXXV.
The roye Robert the Bruss the rayke he awowit,
With all the hart that he had, to the haily graif;
Syne quhen the dait of his deid derfly him dowit,
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With lordis of Scotland, lerit, and the laif,
As worthy, wysest to waile, in worschipe allowit,
To James lord Dowglas thow the gre gaif, [thay the gre.]
To ga with the kingis hart; thairwith he nocht growit,
Bot said to his souerane: "So me God saif!
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Ȝour gret giftis and grant ay graciouss I fand;
Bot now it movis all ther maist,
That ȝour hart nobillast
To me is closit and cast,
Throw ȝour command.
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XXXVI.
"I loue ȝou mair for that loiss ȝe lippyn me till,
Than ony lordschipe or land, so me our Lord leid!
I sall waynd for no wye to wirk as ȝe will,
At wiss, gif my werd wald, with ȝou to the deid"
