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THE
HUNTING OF CHEVYCHASE.
An Ancient Heroic Ballad.
ALL happineſs attend our King,
our nation, one and all:
A woeful hunting once there did
in Chevychaſe befal!
To drive the deer with hound and horn,
Earl Piercy took his way,
The child may rue, that was unborn,
the hunting of that day.
Vhe ſtout Earl of Northuinberland
a ſolemn vow did make,
His pleaſure, in the Scottish woods,
three ſummer's days to take.
The choiceſt harts of Chevychaſe
to kill and bear away.
Theſe tidings to Earl Douglas came,
in Scotland where he lay;
Who feat Earl Piercy preſent word,
he would prevent his ſport.
The Engliſh Earl, not fearing him,
did to the wood reſort,
With twenty hundred bow-men bold,
all choſen men of might,
