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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.