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,