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BATTLE OF HARLAW 13

 A mortall man in armour bricht,
   Sir Thomas Murray ſtout and kene,
 Left to the warld thair laſt gude nicht.
                       XXX.
 Thair was not ſen King Keneths days
   ſic ſtrange inteſtine crewel ſtryf
 In Scotland ſene, as ilk man ſays,
   quhair mony liklie-loſt thair lyſe;
   quhilk maid divorce twene man and wyfe,
 And mony childrene fatherleſs,
   quhilk in this Realme has bene full ryfe ;
 Lord help theſe lands, our wrangs redreſs.
                      XXXI.
 In July, on Saint James his even,
   that four and twenty diſmall day,
 Twelve hundred, ten ſcore and eleven
   of zeirs ſen CHRYST, the ſuthe to ſay:
   men will remember as they may,
 Quben thus the veritie they knaw,
   and mony a ane may murn for ay,
 The brim battill of the Harlaw,