It is from John Mair's Historia Majoris Britanniae tam Angliae quam Scotiae, which appeared in 1521 "Circa haec tempora [Ricardi Primi], ut auguror, Robertus Hudus Anglus et Parvus Joannes latrones famatissimi in nemoribus latuerunt, solum opulentorum virorum bona deripientes.
Wyntoun and Mair, as we have seen, assign him to that period.
He aye hae mair men ti help him, an finnd the bairn thay wad, tho thay maun hunt the warld.
If I wis a young Disraeli, Da wis mair like William Wallace.
Its subject is the `` conceit "that men first clipped away the `` con" from "conscience" and left "science" and "na mair."