With that, a brave younge gentlman
Thus to the Erle did say,
“Loe, yonder doth Erle Douglas come,
His men in armour bright,
Full twenty hundred Scottish speres
All marching in our sight,
“All men of pleasant Tivydale,
Fast by the river Tweede:”
“O ceaze your sportts!” Erle Percy said,
“And take your bowes with speede.