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 138 SHEEP AMONG THE CHEVIOTS.

Doth change the sports of Chevy-Chase To conflict stern and dire.

Ye wist not that ye press the spot,

Where Percy held his way Across the marches, in his pride,

The &quot; chiefest harts to slay ; &quot; And where the stout Earl Douglas rode

Upon his milk-white steed, With &quot; fifteen hundred Scottish spears,&quot;

To stay the invaders deed.

Ye wist not, that ye press the spot

Where, with his eagle eye, King James, and all his gallant train,

To Flodden Field swept by.* The queen was weeping in her bower,

Amid her maids that day, And on her cradled nursling s face

Those tears like pearl-drops lay.

For madly gainst her native realm

Her royal husband went, And led his flower of chivalry

As to a tournament ;

9,1513, between Henry VIII. and James IV. of Scotland, the latter having married Margaret, sister of the English king, and daughter of Henrv VII.
 * The great battle of Flodden Field was fought September

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