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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...They steep 'd their hose and shoon; The Lindsays flew like fire about, Till all the fray was done. The Percy and Montgomery met, That either of other were fain;. They swakked swords, and they twa swat, And aye the blude ran down between. Yield thee, O yield thee, Percy!' he said, Or else I vow I'll lay thee low!' ' Whom to shall I yield, ' said Earl Percy, Now that I see it must be so? Thou shalt not yield to lord nor loun, Nor yet shalt thou yield to me; But yield thee to the braken bush, That grows upon yon lilye lee!' I will not yield to a braken bush, Nor yet will I yield to a briar; But I would yield to Earl Douglas, Or Sir Hugh the Montgomery, if he were here.' As soon as he knew it was Montgomery, He struck his sword's point in the gronde; And the Montgomery was a courteous knight, And quickly took him by the honde. This deed was done at Otterbourne, About the breaking of the day; Earl Douglas was buried at the braken bush, And the Percy led captive away. 231 This ballad la taken from Percy's ' Reliques, ' where it is given chiefly from his Folio MS., compared with two ancient printed copies.' ' The concluding stanzas, however, which contain the old beggar's discovery of himself, ' were substituted by the Doctor, apparently from his own pen, for ' those of the vulgar ballad, ' to remove the 'absurdities nnd inconsistencies' of these latter, and to reconcile the story to'probability and true history. For this, ' he says, informs us that at the decisive battle of Evesham, fought August 4, 1265, when Simon de Montfort. the great Earl of Leicester, was slain at the head of the barons, his eldest son, Henry, fell by his side, and in consequence of that defeat, his whole family sunk for ever.' With regard to the date of the ballad. Dr. Percy thinks it was...

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