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CHEVY-CHACE. |
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"And now with me, my countrymen,
Your courage forth advance; For there was never champion yet
In Scotland or in France, oo
" That ever did on horseback come,
But, if my hap it were, I durst encounter man for man,
With him to break a spear."
Earl Douglas on his milk-white steed, w
Most like a baron bold, Rode foremost of the company,
Whose armour shone like gold.
" Show me," he said, " whose men you be, That hunt so boldly here, ro
That, without my consent, do chase And kill my fallow-deer."
The man that first did answer make
Was noble Piercy he ; Who said, " We list not to declare, n
Nor show whose men we be.
" Yet we will spend our dearest blood,
Thy chiefest hart to slay;" Then Douglas swore a solemn oath,
And thus in rage did say ; « |
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62. since.—0. B. |
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