"
As Wallace pressed the hand of his new friend, to leave him to repose,
a messenger entered from Lord Mar, to request the regent's presence in
his closet. He found him with Lord de Warenne. The latter presented
him with another dispatch from the Prince of Wales. It was to say,
that news had reached him of Wallace's design to attack the castles
garrisoned by England, on the eastern coast. Should this information
prove true, he (the prince) declared that, as a punishment for such
increasing audacity, he would put Lord Douglas into closer confinement;
and while the Southron fleets would inevitably baffle Wallace's
attempts, the moment the exchange of prisoners was completed on the
borders, an army from England should enter Scotland, and ravage it with
fire and sword.
When Wallace had heard this dispatch, he smile and said, "The deed is
done, my Lord de Warenne. Both the castles and the fleets are taken;
and what punishment must we now expect from this terrible threatener?"
"Little from him, or his headlong counselors," replied De Warenne; "but
Thomas Earl of Lancaster, the king's nephew, is come from abroad with a
numerous army.
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