ABSTRACT
Wallace, having planted Fraser and Ramsay with an adequate force in charge of the prisoners, went to the tent of the two Southron commanders to pay them the courtesy due to their bravery and rank before he retired with his victorious followers towards Roslyn Castle. He entered alone, and at sight of the warrior who had given them so signal a defeat the generals rose. Neville who had received a slight wound in one of his arms, stretched out the other to Wallace in answer to a compliment which that chieftain paid to his military conduct. 'Sir William Wallace,' said he, 'that you were obliged to declare a name so deservedly renowned, before the troops I led could be made to relinquish one step of their hard-earned advantage, was an acknowledgment in my favour almost equivalent to a victory.'
