Thomas of Erceldoune

“ Thou shalt thy gates yarn, thou yarns not thereafter;
Thou shalt yalmur and yell that all York shall it hear:
Then the town shall be tint trow thou not else;
Thy tops and thy turnats tumbled to the ground,
No false fortune so fell has thee at feed,
That force shall fail thee when thou best thinkest,
And lipens on London to lead thee for ever,
On Linton and Lindsay, and Lancaster shires
There shall a lion be lowsed that a lord is,
Both of London and Lorn, as the law will
He shall allege to be liege, and the law make:
Leave nought upon loft, but waste them for ever. ”

“ Captive and curst men are cumbered for ever.
There may no captive by Christ this kindred defend,
Laughty and largeness, are two love things,
He that his life gave, loves them well.
Knights and christen men there to heed take:
Cast the curst men in care, but they to Christ turn,
Think on Dumbarton the bold in old Birns time,
That thou art but a beeld, and in that land chief,
Thou shalt take heed to this token that I shall thee tell,
Believe it as truly as it were written:
When Lowmond law shall its leave take
From the land of Lennox, and leave it forever ”

“ Striveling that strait place, a strength of the land,
Why with Strabrock and Strathern strives thou to yarn,
When Strabogie shall destroy all the straiberries;
The strands of Strabrock shall stream them with blood,
Three storks in a stall shall stand them before,
Stuffed all is steel weed, all on horse-back. ”