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10 from dwelling on the "gestis" of Wallace and Bruce, because they had been recounted by Barbour and others, and were in everybody's mouth in those days; but, alas! except through Barbour, they have not come down to ours.

Thus of Wallace he says:

And of Bruce, Wyntoun writes:

Though sharing Wyntoun's appreciation of Barbour's poem of The Brus, one would gladly have excused the later writer from the labour of giving the history of the world from the Creation, had he only entered into fuller details regarding public