With fuar fpeares off myghttè tre
The cum in on every fyde.

Thrughe our Yngglifhe archery

Gave many a wounde full wyde;

Many a doughete the garde to dy,

Which ganyde them no pryde.

The Yngglyfhe men let thear bowys be,
And pulde owt brandes that wer bright;
It was a hevy fyght to fe

Bryght fwordes on bafnites lyght.

Thorowe ryche male, and myne-ye-ple

Many fterne the ftroke downe ftreght:
Many a freyke, that was full free,
Ther undar foot dyd lyght.

At last the Duglas and the Perfè met,

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Lyk to captayns of myght and mayne;

The fwapte togethar tyll the both swat

With fwordes, that wear of fyn myllàn.

Thes worthè freckys for to fyght

Ther-to the wear full fayne,

Tyll the bloode owte off thear bafnetes sprente,

-As ever dyd heal or rayne.

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V. 21. throrowe. PC.
Ibid. and of. PC.

Holde

Holde the, Perfè, fayd the Doglas,}

With that ther cam an arrowe hastely
Forthe off a mightie wane *,

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Hit hathe strekene the yerle Duglas

In at the brest bane.

Thoroue lyvar and longs bathe

The sharp arrowe ys gane,
That never after in all his lyffe days,

He spayke mo wordes but ane,

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That was †, Fyghte ye, my merry men, whyllys

ye may,

For my lyff days ben gan.

V. 33. helde. PC.

V. 49. throroue. PC.

Wane, i. e. ane, one, jc. man. an arrow came from a mighty one: from a mighty man. †This seems to have been a Glofs added.

The

The Perfè leanyde on his brande,
And fawe the Duglas de;

He tooke the dede man be the hande,
And fayd, Wo ys me for the!

To have favyde thy lyffe I wold have pertyd with My landes for years thre,

For a better man of hart, nare of hande

Was not in all the north countrè.

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60

Off all that fe a Skottishe knyght,

Was callyd Sir Hewe the Mongon-byrry,

He fawe the Duglas to the deth was dyght;
He fpendyd a fpear a trufti tre:

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Athe tothar fyde, that a man myght se,

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A large cloth yard and mare:

Towe bettar captayns wear nat in Christiantè,

Then that day flain wear ther.

V. 74. ber. PC.

An

An archar off Northomberlonde

Say flean was the lord Perfè,

He bar a bende-bow in his hande,
Was made off trufti tre:

An arow, that a cloth yarde was lang,
To th' hard ftele halyde he;

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A dynt, that was both fad and foar,

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He fat on Sir Hewe the Mongon-byrry.

The dynt yt was both fad and far,

That he of Mongon-byrry fete;

The fwane-fethars, that his arrowe bar,

With his hart blood the wear wete *. '

Ther was never a freake wone foot wolde fle,
But ftill in ftour dyd ftand,

Heawyng on yche othar, whyll the myght dre,
With many a bal-ful brande.

This battell begane in Chyviat
An owar befor the none,
And when even-fong bell was rang

The battell was nat half done.

The tooke'on' on ethar hand

Be the lyght off the mone;

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V. 80. Say, i. e. Sawe. V. 84. haylde. PC. V.87. far. PC. This incident is taken from the battle of Otterbourn; in which Sir High Montgomery, Knt. (fon of fohn Lord Montgomery) was flain with

all arrow.

Vid. Crawford's Peerage.

Many

Many hade no ftrenght for to stande,
In Chyviat the hyllys aboun.

Of fifteen hondrith archars of Ynglonde
Went away but fifti and thre;

Of twenty hondrith fpear-men of Skotlonde, 105
But even five and fifti:

But all wear flayne Cheviat within :
The hade no strengthe to stand on hie;
The chylde may rue that ys un-borne,
It was the mor pittè.

Thear was flayne with the lord Perfè

Sir John of Agerstone,

Sir Roger the hinde Hartly,

Sir Wyllyam the bolde Hearone.

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Sir Jorg the worthè Lovele

A knyght of great renowen,

Sir Raff the ryche Rugbè

With dyntes wear beaten dowene.

For Wetharryngton my harte was wo,
That ever he flayne fhulde be;

For when both his leggis wear hewyne in to,
Yet he knyled and fought on hys kne.

V. 102. abou. PC. V. xo8. ftrenge.... hỷ. PC. 16ule. PC. V. 121. in to, i. e. in two. V. 122. kny. PC.

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V. 115.

Ther