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I will not yeild to any Scot
that ever yet was born.
With that there came an arrow keen
out of an Engliſh bow,
which ſtruck Earl Douglas to the heart,
a deep and deadly blow.
He never ſpoke more words than theſe:
fight on, my merry men all-
For why? my life is at an end-
Lord Percy ſees me fall
Then leaving ſtrife- Earl Percy took
the dead man by the hand,
And ſaid, Earl Douglas, for thy life,
would I have loſt my land.
O dear! my very heart doth bleed
with ſorrow for thy ſake:
For ſure a more renowned knight
miſchance did never take;
A knight anongſt the Scots there was,
who ſaw Earl Douglas die;
And ſtraight in wrath did now revenge
upon the Lord Percy.
Sir Hugh Montgomery he was call'd;
who, with a ſpear moſt bright,
Well mounted on a gallant ſteed,
Rode fiercely through the fight;
He paſt the Engliſh archers all,
without all dread or fear:
And through Earl Percy's body then
he thruſt his hateful ſpear;
With ſuch a vehement force and might
he did his body gore,
The ſpear went through the other ſide
a full cloth yard and more.
