Then stepp'd a gallant 'fquire forth,. Who faid, I would not have it told That e'er my captain fought on foot, You be two earls, faid Witherington, I'll do the beft that do I may, fword, Our English archers bent their bows, At the first flight of arrows fent, To drive the deer with hound and horn, They clos'd full falt on ev'ry fide, A 3 2 · O Chrift, The cries of men lying in their gorej, dvin H At laft thefe two ftout earls did meet, They fought until they both did fweat, Yield thee, lord Percy, Douglas faid Thy ranfom I will freely give, Thou art the most courageous knight That ever I did fee. No, Douglas, quoth earl Percy, then, Thy proffer I do fcorn; I will not yield to any Scot.. That ever yet was born, With With that there came an arrow keen Which ftruck earl Douglas to the heart, Who never fpoke more words than these For why my life is at an end.. Then leaving life, earl Percy took And faid, earl Douglas, for thy life, Would I had loft my O Chrift! my very heart doth bleed For fure a more renowned knight, A knight among the Scots there was, Who ftraight in wrath did vow revenge Sir Hugh Montgomery was he call'd ; And, And, pafs'd the English archers all, With fuch a vehement force and might The fpear went through the other side So thus did both thefe nobles die,. He had a bow bent in his hand. An arrow of a cloth-yard long; Against fir Hugh Montgomery The grey-goofe wing that was thereon: In his heart-blood was wet. This fight did laft from break of day Till fetting of the fun; For when they rung the evening-bell The battle fcarce was done. With With the earl Percy there was flain And with fir George, and good fir James, For Witherington needs muft I wail, For when his legs were fmitten off, And with earl Douglas there was flain Sir Charles Currel, that from the field Sir Charles Murrel of Ratcliffe too, His fifter's fon was he; Sir David Lamb, fo well efteem'd, And the lord Maxwell, in like wife, Of |