Immediately after fell a ioly jarre

Betweene the king, and Percie’s worthy blouds,

Which grue at last vnto a deadly warre:

For like as drops engender mighty flouds,

And litle seedes sprout forth great leaues and buds,

Euen so small striues,[530] if they bee suffered run,

Breede wrath and war, and death or they be don.

20.

The king would haue the ransome of such Scots

As these the Percies tane had in the fielde: