The life of Sir William Wallace, the governor general of Scotland, and hero of the Scottish chiefs. By Peter Donaldson.

SIR WILLIAM WALLACE. 33
victory, attempted to ride down the band of Scots by
a furious onset; but Wallace, first in fight, met them
fell and keen, with his immovable company of youths,
and transfixed the foremost of the enemy: then all
swords were drawn on either side, and were wielded
in dire array. The Englishmen surrounded the Scots
on every side thinking to bear them down by their
horses and their numbers; but the close little band
of Scots stood impenetrable, and repulsed all the attacks of their enemies. When Fenwick then saw
their unexpected repulse, and the fields died with the
blood of his men, he advanced on a prancing steed,
clothed in bright armour; wielding the dreadful
spear, with dismal gloom and dashed into the thickest of the fight in fury. Wallace saw the murderer
of his parent and brother, and became as outrageous
as a hungry lion; he flew at him, and with a deadly
blow sheared away his thigh.'Ere he was dead the
enemy bore so close and keen, that poor Robert Boyd
was almost overpowered by the number of his foes;
but Wallace saw the unequal struggle of nis noble
companion, turned in again and rescued him from
danger, and chased them through the plain. There
Adam Wallace and Beaumont cut a Southeron Squire
of great renown through the middle, and before night
there was not a Southeron to dispute the field
of battle. Three Scots Warriors fell in battle on that
awful day; one hundred Southerons lay dead around
them and four score escaped by flight, leaving all
their convoy a prey to the victorious Scots.
The convoy consisted of gold, harness, horses, victuals, wines, even ten score of harnessed horses, besides provender and other things.
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