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 The Hunting of Chevy-Chace,

GOD prosper long our noble King, Our lives and safeties all, A woeful hunting once their did, In Chevy-Chace befal. To drive the deer with hound and horn, Earl Percy took his way The child may rue that is unborn The hurting of that day. The stout tail of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods, Three summer days take The choicest harts of Chevy-Chace To skill and bear away, These tidings to Earl Douglas came, In Scotland where he lay Who sent Lord Percy present word, He would prevent his spot- The English Earl not fearing trim, Did to the woods respi. With twenty hundred bow men bold, Al chosen men of might; Who knew full well in time of teed, To their shafts aright The gailan. grey hounda swif ly ran, to chace the follow deer. On Monday they began to bunt, When day-light did appear 2nd long before high ngon they had, An lundel. Dit boek slain, then having in d, the vovers sent, s rouse the up again.