over castille, towar, and town.

65. This was the hontynge of the Cheviot,

that tear[59] begane this spurn;

Old men that knowen the grownde well enoughe

call it the battell of Otterburn.

66. At Otterburn begane this spume

upon a Monnynday;

There was the doughty Douglas slean,

the Percy never went away.

67. There was never a tyme on the Marche-partës