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tended to make the englifh bows ufe- lefs. But he was miftaken, for wheaever the tront opened? the archers plied the Scots with their arrows, while the others kept them in play with their fwords infomuch that the ground was covered with their dead bodies. And Earl Piercy accompanied by divert knights, broke in among them with fuch fury, that he laid heaps of them dead befre him, fo that Earl Douglas, who was fighting valiantly on the other fide, was obliged co come and rally his broken forces.The two Earls met like enraged lions, o armour was proof againft their sell tenpered fwords. But at length Piercy began to grow faint, when Dougias thus addreffed him : Noble ford, you fee your blood begins to ow fait, and death you cannot effcape if you contend with me any anger: I therefore would have you ield yourfelf my prifoner; you fhall be nobly ufed ; and I’ll preferve you ferve my king.— To this Piercy