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Thou art the moſt couragious Knight
that ever I did ſee.
No, Douglas, quoth Lord Piercy then,
thy proſter I do ſcorn;
I will not yield to any Scot
that ever yet was born.
With that there came an arrow keen
out of an Engliſh bow,
Which ſtruck Lord Douglas to the heart,
a deep and deadly blow!
Who never ſpoke more words than theſe,
“Fight on, my merry men all;
For why, my life is at an end,
Lord Piercy ſees me fall!”
Then, leaving life, Lord Piercy took
Lord Douglas by the hand,
And ſaid, “ Alas! O for thy life
I'd freely loſe my land!
O but my very heart doth bleed
with ſorrow for thy ſake!
For ſure a more renowned Knight
the field did never take!”
A Knight among the Scots there was,
who ſaw Earl Douglas die,
Who ſtraight in wrath, did vow revenge
upon the Earl Piercy:
Sir Hugh Montgomery he was called,
who, with a ſpear full bright,
Well mounted on a gallant ſteed,
rode fiercely thro' the fight:
