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 11 Then leaving life Early Piercy took The dead man by the hand, And faid Earl Douglas, for thy fake. Would I had lolt my land.

Oh Chrift ! my very heart doth bleed, With forrow for thy fake. For fure a more renowned knight, Mifebance did never take,

A knight amomg the Scots there was. Who faw Earl Douglas die, And ftraight in wrath, did vow revenge Upon the Lord Piercy.

Sir Hugh Montgomery he was call’d, Who with a fpear moft bright, Well mounted on a pal ant fteed, Rode fiercely through the fight.

He pafs’d our Englifh archers all, Without either dread or fear, And through Earl Piercy’s body then, He thruft the hateful fpear,

With fuch vehement force and might, hie did his body gore, The fpear want through the other fide, A full cloth yard and more :

So did both thefe brave nobles die, Whofe courage none could ftain An Englifh archer then perceiv’d The noble Earl was flain,

He had a bow bent in his hand, Made of a trufty yew,