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 Says, "Fare ye weel for evermair;

Your face nae mair I'll see."

She dress'd him in her ain claithing,

And frae her house he came;

Which made the Englishmen admire

To see sie a stalwart dame!

Now Wallace to the Hielands went,

Where nae meat nor drink had he;

Said, "Fa' me life, or fa' me death,

To some toun I maun drie."

He steppit ower the river Tay-

On the North Inch steppit he;

And there he saw a weel-faured May,

Was washing aneath a tree.

"What news, what news, ye weel-faured May?

What news ha'e ye to me?

What news, what news, ye weel-faured May,

What news in the south countrie?"

"O see ye, sir, yon hostler-house

That stands on yonder plain?

This very day have landit in it

Full fifteen Englishmen,

"In search of Wallace, our champion,

Intending he should dee!"

"Then, by my sooth," says Wallace wicht,

"These Englishmen I'se see.

"If I had but in my pocket

The worth of a single pennie,

I wad gang to the hostler-house,

These gentlemen to see."