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 Thou art the moſt couragious Knight

that ever I did ſee.

No, Douglas, quoth Lord Piercy then,

thy proſter I do ſcorn;

I will not yield to any Scot

that ever yet was born.

With that there came an arrow keen

out of an Engliſh bow,

Which ſtruck Lord Douglas to the heart,

a deep and deadly blow!

Who never ſpoke more words than theſe,

“Fight on, my merry men all;

For why, my life is at an end,

Lord Piercy ſees me fall!”

Then, leaving life, Lord Piercy took

Lord Douglas by the hand,

And ſaid, “ Alas! O for thy life

I'd freely loſe my land!

O but my very heart doth bleed

with ſorrow for thy ſake!

For ſure a more renowned Knight

the field did never take!”

A Knight among the Scots there was,

who ſaw Earl Douglas die,

Who ſtraight in wrath, did vow revenge

upon the Earl Piercy:

Sir Hugh Montgomery he was called,

who, with a ſpear full bright,

Well mounted on a gallant ſteed,

rode fiercely thro' the fight: