And after them did rise good Sir George Bowes,
after them a spoyle to make;
the Erles returned backe againe,
thought ever that Knight to take.
This Baron did take a Castle[29] then,
was made of lime and stone;
the uttermost[30] walls were ese to be wonne;
the Erles have won them anon;
But tho they won the uttermost walls
quickly and anon,
the innermost walls they cold not winn,
they were made of a rocke of stone.
But newes it came to leeve[31] London
in all the speed that ever might bee;
and word it came to our royall Queene
of all the rebélls in the north countrye.
She turned her grace then once about,
and like a royall Queene she sware,
sayes, “I will ordeine them such a breake-fast
as was not in the North this thousand yeere!”
She caused thirty thousand men to be made
with horsse and harneis all quicklye;
and shee caused thirty thousand men to be made
to take the rebélls in the North countrye.
They took with them the false Erle of Warwicke,
soe did they many another man;
untill they came to Yorke Castle,
I wis they never stinted nor blan.
“Spread thy ancyent, Erle of Westmoreland!
The halfe moone faine wold we see!”
But the halfe moone is fled and gone,
and the Dun Bull vanished awaye;
And Richard[32] Norton and his eight sonnes
are fled away most cowardlye.
Ladds with mony are counted men,
Men without mony are counted none;
but hold your tounges! why say you soe?
Men wilbe men when mony is gone.[33]