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( 6 ) With that there came an arrow keen,

out of an Engliſh bow,

Which ſtruck Lord Douglas to the heart,

a deep and deadly blow;

Who never ſpoke more words than theſe,

fight on, my merry men all;

for why my life is at an end,

Lord Piercy ſees me fall.

Then leaving life, Lord Piercy took

the dead man by the hand,

And ſaid, Lord Douglas; for thy life,

would I had loſt my land.

Oh! but my very heart doth bleed

with ſorrow for thy ſake;

or ſure a more renowned Knight

miſchance did never take.

A Knight among the Scots there was

who ſaw Earl Douglas die,

Who ſtraight in wrath did vow revenge

upon the Earl Piercy.

Sir Hughh Montgomery he was call'd

who with a ſpear full bright,

Well mounted on a gallant ſteed,

rode fiercely through the fight

He paſt the Engliſh archers all,

without a dread or fear,

And through Earl Piercy's body, then,

he thruſt his hateful fpear

With ſuch a vehement force and might

his body he did gore;

The ſpear went through the other ſide,

a long cloth yard and more.

o thus did both theſe nobles die,

whoſe courage none could ſtain

An Engliſh archer then perceiv'd

his noble Lord was ſlain ;