To the quarry then the Perse went,
To see the brittling of the deer.
He said, "It was the Douglas promise
This day to meet me here;
But I wist he would fail, verament:"
A great oath the Perse swear.
At the last a squire of Northumberland
Looked at his hand full nigh;
He was ware o* the doughty Douglas coming,
With him a mighty meany;