The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire / Transcribed from Private Manuscripts, Rare Broadsides, and Scarce Publications; with Notes and a Glossary

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Proclayme hym a youthe of pow're."

"Young Roger de Mowbray[7] is that youthe,

And hee's sprang of the royal line;

Hys wealthe and hys followers, oh kyng,

Are allemost as greate as thyne."

"And who's yon aged chiefe I see

All yclad in purple veste?"

"Oh that's the Bishoppe o' th' Orkney isles,[8]

And hee alle the hoste hath bleste.