Many a freyke, that was full free, At last the Duglas and the Persè met, Thes worthè freckys for to fyght Tyll the bloode owte off thear basnetes sprente, 8 Wane, i. e. ane. one, sc. man; an arrow came from a mighty one: from a mighty man. To have savyde thy lyffe I wold have pertyd with My landes for years thre, 60 For a better man of hart, nare of hande Was not in all the north countrè. Off all that se a Skottishe knyght, Was callyd Sir Hewe the Mongon-byrry, He sawe the Duglas to the deth was dyght; 65 75 Athe tothar syde, that a man myght se, Towe bettar captayns wear nat in Cristiantè, V. 49, throroue, P.C. V. 74, ber. P. C. V. 78, ther. P. C. 9 This seems to have been a gloss added. An archar of Northomberlonde 80 He bar a bende-bow in his hande, Was made off trusti tre: An arow, that a cloth yarde was lang, 85 A dynt, that was both sad and soar, He sat on Sir Hewe the Mongon-byrry. The dynt yt was both sad and 'soar,' 90 Ther was never a freake wone foot wolde file, Heawyng on yche othar, whyll the myght dre, Of fifteen hondrith archers of Ynglonde Of twenty hondrith spear-men of Skotlonde, V. 80, Say, i. e. sawe. V. 84, haylde. P. C. V. 87, sar. P. C. 105 10 This incident is taken from the battle of Otterbourn; in which Sir Hugh Montgomery, Knt. (son of John Lord Montgomery) was slain with an arrow. Vide Crawfurd's Peerage. But all wear slayne Cheviat within: The hade no strengthe to stand on he: Thear was slayne with the lord Persè Sir Roger the hinde Hartly, Sir Wyllyam the bolde Hearone. Sir Jorg the worthè Lovele A knyght of great renowen, Sir Raff the ryche Rugbè 110 115 With dyntes wear beaten dowene. For Wetharryngton my harte was wo, That ever he slayne shulde be; 120 For when both his leggis wear hewyne in to, He knyled and fought on hys kne. Ther was slayne with the dougheti Douglas Sir Davye Lwdale, that worthè was, 125 His sistars son was he: Sir Charles a Murrè, in that place, That never a foot wolde fle; Sir Hewe Maxwell, a lorde he was, So on the morrowe the mayde them byears Many wedous with wepyng tears1, Cam to fach ther makys a-way. 130 V. 122, Yet he....kny. P. c. 1 A common pleonasm, see the next poem, Fit 2nd, v. 155. So Harding in his Chronicle, chap. 140, fol. 148, describing the death of Richard I., says, Tivydale may carpe off care, Northombarlond may mayk grat mone, For towe such captayns, as slayne wear thear, 135 Word ys commen to Edden-burrowe To Jamy the Skottishe kyng, 140 That dougheti Duglas, lyff-tenant of the Merches, That lord Persè, leyff-tennante of the Merchis, 150 God have merci on his soll, sayd kyng Harry, Good lord, yf thy will it be! I have a hondrith captayns in Yynglonde, he sayd, For the names in this and the foregoing page, see the remarks at the end of the next ballad. V. 146, ye seth. P.C. V. 149, cheyff tennante. P. C. He shrove him then unto Abbots thre With great sobbyng. and wepyng teares. So likewise Cavendish, in his Life of Cardinal Wolsey, chap. 12, p. 31, 4to. "When the Duke heard this, he replied with weeping teares," &c. |