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34 THE HUNTING OP THE CHEVIOT.
" I wat youe byn great lordes twaw,
I am a poor squyar of lande; I wyll never se my captayne fyght on a fylde, 95
And stande myselffe, and loocke on, But whyll I may my weppone welde,
I wyll not [fayl] both hart and hande."
That day, that day, that dredfull day!
The first fit here I fynde ; 100
And youe wyll here any mor a' the hountyng a' the Chyviat,
Yet ys ther mor behynd. |
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the' second fit.
The Yngglyshe men hade ther bowys yebent,
Ther hartes were good yenoughe ; The first off arros that the shote off,
Seven skore spear-men the sloughe.
99. " That day, that day, that gentil day," is cited in The Gomplaynt of Scotland, (ii. 101,) not, we imagine, as the title of a ballad (any more than " The Persee and the Mongumrye met," ante, p. 19,) but as a line by which the song containing it might he recalled.
1-4. It is well known that the ancient English weapon was the long-bow, and that this nation excelled all others in archery, while the Scottish warriors chiefly depended on the use of the spear. This characteristic difference never escapes our ancient bard.—Perot. |
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