t, Perse, and I brook my lyffe,
thy deth well quyte shall be.'

63.
As our noble kynge mayd his avowe,
lyke a noble prince of renowen,
For the deth of the lord Perse
he dyde the battell of Hombyll-down;

64.
Wher syx and thritte Skottishe knyghtes
on a day wear beaten down:
Glendale glytteryde on ther armor bryght,
over castille, towar, and town.

65.
This was the hontynge off the Cheviat,
that tear begane this spurn;
Old men that knowen the grownde well yenoughe
call it the battell of Otterburn.

66.
At Otterburn begane this spurne
uppone a Monnynday;
Ther was the doughte Doglas slean,
the Perse never went away.

67.
Ther was never a tym on the Marche-partes
sen the Doglas and the Perse met,
But yt ys mervele and the rede blude ronne not,
as the reane doys in the stret.

68.
Ihesue Crist our balys bete,
and to the blys vs brynge!
Thus was the hountynge of the Chivyat:
God send vs alle good endyng!

[Annotations:
1.5: 'magger' = maugre; _i.e._ in spite of.
2.4: 'let,' hinder.
3.2: 'meany,' band, company.
3.4: 'the' = they; so constantly, 'shyars thre'; the districts
(still called shires) of Holy Island, Norham, and Bamborough.
5.3: 'byckarte,' _i.e._ bickered, attacked the deer.
6.1: 'wyld,' deer.
6.3: _i.e._ through the groves darted.
7.3: 'oware,' hour.
8.1: 'mort,' note of the bugle.
8.4: 'bryttlynge,' cutting up.
10.2: shaded his eyes with his hand.
12.2: 'feale,' fail.
12.4: 'yth,' in the.
13.2: 'boys,' bows.
14.3: 'glede,' glowing coal.
17.4: 'the ton,' one or other.
20.1: 'cors,' curse.
21.4: 'on,' one.
24.3: 'And,' If.
25.4: 'sloughe,' slew.
26.4: 'wouche,' evil.
29.4: 'basnites,' light helmets or skull-caps.
30.1: 'myneyeple,' = manople, a kind of long gauntlet.
30.3: 'freyke,' man. So 32.1, 47.1, etc.
31.4: 'myllan,' Milan steel. Cp. 'collayne,' _Battle of Otterburn_,
54.4
36.2: 'wane.' One arrow out of a large number.--Skeat.
38.3: Addison compared (Vergil, _Aen._ x. 823):--
'Ingemuit miserans graviter dextramque tetendit,' etc.
41.3: 'blane,' lingered.
44.2: 'say,' saw.
45.2: _i.e._ till the point reached the wood of the bow.
47.3: 'whylle the myghte dre' = while they might dree, as long as
they could hold.
53.1: 'Loumle,' Lumley; previously printed Louele (= Lovel).
57.4: 'makys,' mates, husbands.