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Ac þat hii miȝte ofte ise in cler weder þere
Estward as þe sonne aros a lond as it were
Murie & vair hit þoȝte inou & þat hii þuder wende
To wonie & to libbe þer & þat hii hom word sende

Ȝif enimon hom destourbede & þat hii wolde hii sede
Wardi hom fram alle men þat hom ne tidde no drede
Þis picars hom wende euere vorþ estward euere vaste
To þe norþende of engelonde hii come attelaste
Þulke ende hii founde al bar hii bileuede þere
& swonke & tylede hor liflode & al maistres were
Hii founde hom sustenance inou & liuede þus vorþ
Þe britons in þe souþhalf & hii In þe norþ
Þe picars founde ese inou & defaute none
To libbe in plente inou bote of wimmen one
Vor þer nere none among hom þeruore Into yrlonde
Hii wende to scottes þat þer were þat hii hom ssolde vnder stonde
& lene hom wimmen þat hii miȝte hor ospring eche so
Vor þing þat woneþ & noþing wexþ sone it worþ ido
Scottes hom sende wimmen In þis fourme þere
Þat wan a child were ibore & me in doute were
Wo were þe fader þat it ssolde name & eritage
Boþe abbe in þe moder half vor drede of outrage
Leste it heode out of kunde þorȝ child mis bi ȝite
Vor me mai bet soþnesse of þe moder þan of þe fader iwite
In þis manere picars mid scottes mengd hor blod
So þat it siwede þe wimmen wanne me out vnder stod
& wanne man wiþoute eir of him sulue to deþe were ibroȝt
His moder kun was is eir & is fader riȝt noȝt
& vor þe modres scottes were so vorþ it is icome
Þat þe scottes name is al aboue & þe picars bi nome
Þus scottes among picars come out of yrlonde
& þat lond me clupede after hom scotlonde