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God prosper long our Noble King, Our lives and safeties all- A woeful hunting once there did In Chevy-Chase befal.

To drive the deer with hound and horn Earl Percy took the way, The child may rue that was unborn, The hunting of that day.

The stout Earl of Northumberland A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods, Three summer days to take;

The choicest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away. These tidings to Earl Douglas came, In Scotland where he lay;

Who sent Earl Percy present word, He would prevent the sport. The English Earl not fearing him, Did to the wood resort,