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Yeeld thee, Lord Percy, Douglas fayd;
In faith I will thee bring,

Where thou shalt high advanced bee

By James our Scottish king:

Thy ranfome I will freely give,

And thus report of thee,

Thou art the moft couragious knight,

That ever I did fee.

Noe, Douglas, quoth Earl Percy then,

Thy proffer I doe fcorne;

I will not yeelde to any Scott,

That ever yet was borne.

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Then leaving life, Earl Percy tooke

The dead man by the hand;

And faid, Earl Douglas, for thy life
Wold I had loft my land.

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O Chrift! my very heart doth bleed
With forrow for thy fake;
For fure, a more renowned knight

Mifchance did never take.

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A knight amongst the Scotts there was,
Which faw Earl Douglas dye,

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Who ftreight in wrath did vow revenge

Upon the Lord Percy :

Sir Hugh Mountgomery was he call'd,
Who, with a speare most bright,
Well-mounted on a gallant fteed,
Ran fiercely through the fight;

And paft the English archers all,

Without all dread or feare;

And thro' Earl Percy's body then

He thruft his hatefull fpeare;

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With fuch a vehement force and might

He did his body gore,

The speare went through the other fide

A large cloth-yard, and more,

So thus did both thefe nobles dye,
Whose courage none could staine :
An English archer then perceiv'd

The noble earl was flaine;

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He

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He had a bow bent in his hand,

Made of a trusty tree;
An arrow of a cloth-yard long
Up to the head drew hee:

Against Sir Hugh Mountgomery,
So right the fhaft he fett,

The grey goofe-wing that was thereon,
In his hearts blood was wett.

This fight did last from breake of day,
Till fetting of the fun;

For when they rung the evening-bell †,
The battel fcarce was done.

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With brave Earl Percy, there was flaine

Sir John of Egerton *,

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Sc. the Curfew bell, ufually rung at 8 o'clock.

For the furnames, fee the Notes at the End of the Ballad *,

For

For Witherington needs must I wayle,

As one in doleful dumpes *; For when his legs were fmitten off, He fought upon his stumpes.

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And with Earl Douglas, there was flaine
Sir Hugh Mountgomery ;

Sir Charles Murray, that from the feeld
One foote would never flee.

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Sir Charles Murray, of Rateliff, too,

His fifters fonne was hee;

Sir David Lamb, fo well esteem'd,

Yet faved cold not be.

And the Lord Maxwell in like cafe
Did with Earl Douglas dye :

Of twenty hundred Scottish fperes,

Scarce fifty-five did flye.

Of fifteen hundred Englishmen,

Went home but fifty-three;

The reft were flaine in Chevy-Chafe,

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Under the greene wood tree.

Next day did many widowes come,

Their husbands to bewayle;

*. e. "I, as one in deep concern, muft lament." The conftruction

bere bas generally bean misunderfood.

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They

They washt their wounds in brinish teares,
But all wold not prevayle.

Their bodyes, bath'd in purple gore,

They bare with them away:

They kist them dead, a thousand times,

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When they were cladd in clay.

This newes was brought to Edenborrow,
Where Scotlands king did raigne,
That brave Earl Douglas fuddenlye

Was with an arrow flaine:

O heavy newes, King James did say,

Scotland can witnesse bee,

I have not any captaine more

Of fuch account as hee.

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Like tydings to King Henry came,

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Within as short a space,

That Percy of Northumberland

Was flaine in Chevy-Chafe :

Now God be with him, faid our king,

Sith it will no better bee;

I truft I have, within my realme,
Five hundred as good as hee:

Yet fhall not Scot nor Scotland fay,

But I will vengeance take :

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