Abyde fully of this mortall werre.”
Lydgate’s Warres of Troy, B. iv. sig. Y iiii. ed. 1555.
“He was slawe yn sharpe showre.”
Kyng Roberd of Cysylle,—MS. Harl. 1701. fol. 94.
and see our author’s poem Howe the douty Duke of Albany, &c. v. 240. vol. ii. 75.
Page 186. v. 135.
The Whyte Lyon, there rampaunt of moode,
He ragyd and rent out your hart bloode;
He the Whyte, and ye the Red]
The White Lion was the badge of the Earl of Surrey, derived from his ancestors the Mowbrays. His arms were Gules, on a bend between six cross croslets, fitchy, argent: after the battle of Flodden, the king granted to him “an honourable augmentation of his arms, to bear on the bend thereof: in an escutcheon Or, a demi Lion rampant, pierced through the mouth with an arrow, within a double tressure flory and counterflory Gules; which tressure is the same as surrounds the royal arms of Scotland.” Collins’s Peerage, i. 77. ed. Brydges.