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 ( 143 ) save had been utterly extinguified: alſo, Robert Keith, marſhal with lundry other noble men and commons and many were taken priſonerſ. Baliol immediately be- Sieged Perth and entered it by force. The Earl of March, the other governor. being encamped at Ochterarder, and hearing of the death of the Earl of Mar and the taning ef the town of Perth saine with his army and befiuped the ſaid town, ard fi led the ditches, ſo that if he had given the aſſault, he might have entered it; but he ſuddenly raiſed the ſiege, to the great injury of the whole nation. KING ROBERT BRUCE, ADDREſS TO HIS ARMY, AT BANNOCKBURN. SCOTE, wha hee wi' Wallace bled, ſcots, wham Bruce has often led, Welcome to your gory, bed, Or to glorious victory! Now's the day, and now's the hour! See the front of battle lour! See approach proud Edward's pow's) Edward-chains and ſlavery! W& will be a traitor Knave? W ha can fille, coward's grave? TV ha lee bnle as be a ſlave? Traitor, coward, lass and feel