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61 Worde ys commyn to lovly Londone, till27 the fourth Harry our kynge, That lord Persë, leyff-tenante of the Marchis,

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he lay slayne Chyviat within.

"God have merci on his solle," sayde Kyng Harry,

"good Lord, yf thy will it be!

I have a hondrith captayns in Ynglonde,"
he sayd,

"as good as ever was he:
But, Persë, and I brook28 my lyffe,

thy deth well quyte29 shall be."

63 As our noble kynge mayd his avowe,
lyke a noble prince of renowen,
For the deth of the lord Persë
he dyde the battell of Hombyll-down;

64 Wher syx and thrittë Skottishe knyghtes
on a day wear beaten down:
Glendale glytteryde on30 ther armor bryght,
over castille, towar, and town.

65 This was the hontynge off the Cheviat, that tears begane this spurn32,

Old men that knowen the grownde well yenoughe

call it the battell of Otterburn.

66 At Otterburn begane this spurne
uppone a Monnynday;

Ther was the doughte Doglas slean,
the Persë never went away.

67 Ther was never a tym on the Marche

partës

sen33 the Doglas and the Persë met, But yt ys mervele and34 the rede blude

ronne not,

as the reane doys35 in the stret.

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O lang, lang may the ladies stand,
Wi thair gold kemss in their hair,
Waiting for thair ain deir lords,
For they'll se thame na mair.

Haf owre, haf owre to Aberdour,
It's fiftie fadom deip,

And thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence,
Wi the Scots lords at his feit.

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JOHNIE COCK.*

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'What news, what news?' says the Seven
Forsters;

'What news have ye brought to me?'
'I have noe news,' the palmer said,
'But what I saw with my eye.

12 'As I cam in by Braidisbanks,
And down among the whuns,
The bonniest youngster eer I saw
Lay sleepin amang his hunds.
'The shirt that was upon his back
Was o the holland14 fine;
The doublet 15 which was over that
Was o the Lincoln twine.'

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14 Up bespake the Seven Forsters, Up bespake they ane and a': 'O that is Johnie o Cockleys Well, And near him we will draw.'

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O the first stroke that they gae him,
They struck him off by the knee;
Then up bespake his sister's son:

'O the next'll gar16 him die!'

'O some they count ye well-wight17 men, But I do count ye nane;

For you might well ha wakend me,
And askd gin I wad be taen.

'The wildest wolf in aw this wood
Wad not ha done so by me;
She'd ha wet her foot ith wan water,
And sprinkled it oer my brae18,
And if that wad not ha wakend me,
She wad ha gone and let me be.
'O bows of yew, if ye be true,
In London, where ye were bought,
Fingers five, get up belive19,

Manhuid shall fail me nought.'

He has killd the Seven Forsters,
He has killd them all but ane,
And that wan20 scarce to Pickeram Side,
To carry the bode-words21 hame.

'Is there never a [bird] in a' this wood That will tell what I can say;

That will go to Cockleys Well,

Tell my mither to fetch me away?'

There was a [bird] into that wood,
That carried the tidings away,
And many ae22 was the well-wight man
At the fetching o Johnie away.

7 cloth

8 bush of furze ⚫ leaped

14 linen

10 stript

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15 waistcoat

16 make

17 very 18 brow

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