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 17 Lord Piercy to the quarry went. To view the tender deer, Quoth be Earl Douglas promifed This day to meet me here ;

If that I thought be would not come, No longer would I ftay. Then, ftept a brave young gentleman. And to the Earl did fay:

Lo! yonder doth Farl Douglas come. His men of armour bright ; Full twenty hundred Scottifh fpears, All marching in our fight,

All men of pleafant ’Tiviotdale, Faft by the river Tweed. Then ceafe your fport, Earl Piercy faid. And take vour bows with fpeed :

And now with me, my countryman. Your courage forth advance, For never was there champion yet. In Scotland or in France,

That ever did on horfeback come. But if my bap it were, I durft encunter man for man, With him to break a fpear.

Earl Douglas cn a milk white fteed, Much like a baron bold, Rode foremoft of his company, Whole armour fhone like gold :

Shew me, faid he, whofe men you be. That hunt fo boldly here,