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 5 three days he would take his pleafure in hunting on Chevy-Chace; then he fent for dogs and toils, and early on a midfummer morning they all croffed the Tweed.When they arrived at the place, the dogs were put in to roufe the harts: but the huntfmen’s fhouts and the found of their horns caufed the villagers to think it was the voice of war on fome fudden invafion, fo that feveral hid themfelves, and many fled to alarm the country.

CHAP. II.

Of their killing many deers ; and receiving a meffage from Douglas at fupper-time, commanding them to depart. THE harts and roes, tho’ fwift as the wind, could not outftrip the Englifh arrows, the archers laying hundreds of them dead, till they had got fuch ftore of venifon that they doubted how to carry it off—