Note 83 — Chapter VII · SINGULAR ADVENTURE OF WALLACE IN GASK CASTLE.—KILLS THE ENGLISH LEADER.—ESCAPES TO TORWOOD.—INTERVIEW WITH HIS UNCLE.
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“The uncle of Wallace, a priest, so often inculcated, and so deeply imprinted, the following lines upon his mind and memory, that by them he squared all the thoughts of his great soul, and efforts of his vigorous body:
“Dico tibi verum, libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.”
Scotichron. Maj. lib. 12. cap. iii.—See also Fordun, Lib. xii. cap. iii.