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An excellent old Ballad deſcribing the woeful hunting on Chevy-Chace; and the bloody fight between the Earls Piercy and Douglas.

God proſper long our noble king,
 * our lives and ſafeties all,

A woeful hunting once there did
 * In Chevy-Chace befal.

To drive the deer with bound and horn,
 * Earl Piercy took his way,

The child may rue that is unborn,
 * the hunting of that day.

The Earl of Northumberland,
 * a vow to God did make