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"The serving man a queen?" cried the girl. "Why how could that be, father?" Francis laughed merrily when he finished. "Poor Williame! but it ended well after all. Well, my days for man's attire will soon be o'er." "'Tis to be hoped so," answered her father. "Though the dress well becomes thee."
"Give them my body back again, that the Trojans and Trojans' wives grant me my due of fire after my death." Compare La Chancun de Williame, lines 1041-1058 with lines 1140-1134. In both the dinner of a knight who has been long deprived of food is described in passages containing many identical lines. The poet, having found his formula, uses it whenever occasion serves.
Bruce served Edward during the siege of Stirling, then the central key of the country. On its surrender Edward admitted all men to his peace, on condition of oaths of fealty, except "Messire Williame le Waleys." Men of the noblest Scottish names stooped to pursue the hero: he was taken near Glasgow, and handed over to Sir John Menteith, a Stewart, and son of the Earl of Menteith.
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