On a day wear beaten down:
Glendale glytteryde on ther armor bryght,
Over castill, towar, and town.
This was the hontynge off the Chyviat;
That tear begane this spurn:
Old men, that knowen the grownde well yenoughe,
Call it the battell of Otterburn.
At Otterburn began this spurne
Uppon a Monnyn day:
Ther was the doughté Doglas slean,