[128]. Both the MSS. read here Sir James, but see above, [Pt. I. ver. 112].—P.
[143]. Covelle, MS.
[162]. Supposed to be son of Lord John Montgomery, who took Hotspur prisoner. In The Hunting of the Cheviot this Sir Hugh is said to have been slain with an arrow.
THE BATTLE OF OTTERBOURNE.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, i. 354. In the Complaynt of Scotland (1548), "The Persee and the Mongumrye met," ([v. 117 of this piece],) occurs as the title, or rather the catchword, of one of the popular songs of the time.
It fell about the Lammas tide,
When the muir-men win their hay,
The doughty Douglas bound him to ride
Into England, to drive a prey.
He chose the Gordons and the Græmes,5
With them the Lindesays, [light and gay;]
But the [Jardines] wald not with him ride,
And they rue it to this day.
And he has burn'd the dales of Tyne,