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 Earl Percy to the quarry went, To view the fallow deer; Quoth he, Earl Douglas promised This day to meet me here; But if I thought he would not come, No longer would I stay. With that a brave young gentleman, Thus to the Earl did say, Lo, yonder doth Eearl Douglas come, His men in armour bright; Full fifteen hundred Scottish spears, All marching in our sight; All pleasant men of Tiviotdal, Dwell on the river Tweed. Then cease your sport, Earl Percy said, And take your arms with speed: And now, with me, my countrymen, Your courage to advance; For there was ne’er a champion yet, In Scotland or in France, That ever did on hoseback come But, if my hap it were, I durst encounter man for man; With him to break a spear. Lord Douglas, on a milk-white steed, Most like a baron bold, Rode foremost of his company, Whose armour shone like gold. Shew me, said he, whose men you be, That hunt so boldly here; That without my consent, do chase, And kill my fallow deer. The first man that did answer make, Was noble Percy he,