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 5 To drive the deer with hound and horn Douglas bade on the bent A Captain moved with meikle pride, The spears in shivers went. The Chiefs did fall on every side, No slackness there was found. And many a gallant gentlemen, Lay gasping on the ground. O! but it was a grief to se And likewise for to hear, The cries of men lying in their gore, And scattered here and there. At last thir two great chiefs did meet, Like Chieftains of great might: Like lions mov'd the fea'd no Lord. They made a cruel Eight They fought until they both did sweat, With swords of' te per'd steel, Until the blood like drops of rain, They trinking down did feel. Yield the Lord Percy. Doug as said In faith i vi i thea bing. Where thou shit high advanced be, By James our Scottish King The ransom I will freely give, And his report of thee Thou art the most courageous Knight, That ever i diu sce. No Douglas, qaoth Lord Pe cythen The offer I do scorn, I will not yield to any Scot, That evar yet vag born With that there came an arrow keen, Ons of un English bor,