Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets / Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.

by Unknown

Upon the Scots being beaten at Muscleborough field.

On the twelfth day of December,

In the fourth year of King Edwards reign[,]

Two mighty Hosts (as I remember)

At Muscleborough did pitch on a Plain.

For a down, down, derry derry down, Hey down a,

Down, down, down a down derry.

All night our English men they lodged there,

So did the Scots both stout and stubborn,