If the meeten them on the plaine.’
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‘Now hold your tounge,’ saies Iames Douglas,
‘For in faith that is not soe;
For one English man is worth fiue Scotts,
When they meeten together thoe.
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‘For they are as egar men to fight
As a faulcon vpon a pray;
Alas! if euer the winne the vanward,