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THE HUNTING OF THE CHEVIOT

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16. The first mane that ever him an answear mayd, 26. Yet byddys the yerle Doglas uppon the bent, yt was the good lord Persë:

"We wyll not tell the whoys men we ar," he says,
"nor whos men that we be;

But we wyll hounte hear in this chays,
in the spyt of thyne and of the.

17. “The fattiste hartës in all Chyviat

we have kyld, and cast to carry them away. "Be my troth," sayd the doughetë Dogglas agayn,

"therfor the ton1 of us shall de this day."

18. Then sayd the doughtë Doglas
unto the lord Persë:

"To kyll alle thes giltles men,
alas, it wear great pittë!

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22. Then bespayke a squyar off Northom barlonde, Richard Wytharyngton was his nam: "It shall never be told in Sothe-Ynglonde," he says,

"to Kyng Herry the Fourth for sham.

23. "I wat youe byn great lordës twaw,
I am a poor squyar of lande:

I wylle never se my captayne fyght on a fylde,
and stande my selffe and loocke on,
But whylle I may my weppone welde,
I wylle not fayle both hart and hande."

24 That day, that day, that dredfull day!
the first fit here I fynde;

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a captayne good yenoughe, And that was sene verament,

for he wrought hom both woo and wouche.'

27. The Dogglas partyd his ost in thre, lyk a cheffe cheften off pryde; With suar spears off myghttë tre, the 3 cum in on every syde:

28. Thrughe our Yngglyshe archery gave many a wounde fulle wyde; Many a doughetë the3 garde' to dy, which ganyde them no pryde.

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35. "Nay," sayd the lord Persë,

"I tolde it the beforne,

That I wolde never yeldyde be

to no man of a woman born."

36. With that ther cam an arrowe hastely, forthe off a myghttë wane; 12 Hit hathe strekene the yerle Duglas in at the brest-bane.

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