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 THE BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE.

It fell about the Lammas tide.

When the muir-men win their hay.

The doughty earl of Douglas rode

Into England, to catch a prey

He chose the Gordons and the Graemes,

With them the Lindesays light and gay;

But the Jardines wald not with him ride.

And they rue it to this day.

And he has burn’d the dales of Tyne,

And part of Bambrough shire ;

And three good towers on Roxburgh fells,

He left them all on fire.

And he march’d up to Newcastle,

And rode it round about;

“ 0 wha’s the lord of this castle.

Or wha’s the lady o’t?”

But up spake proud Lord Percy, then.

And O but he spake hie!

“ I am the lord of this castle,

My wife’s the lady gay.”