for my lyfe-days ben gane."

38. The Percy leanyde on his brande,

and sawe the Douglas de;

He tooke the dead man by the hande,

and said, "Wo ys me for thee!"

39. "To have savyde thy lyfe, I would have partyde with

my landes for years three,

For a better man, of hart nor of hande,

was not in all the north contrë."

40. Of all that see a Scottish knyght,