‘To whom must I yield,’ quoth Earl Percy,
‘Now that I see it must be so?’
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‘Thou shalt not yield to lord nor loun,
Nor yet shalt thou yield to me;
But yield thee to the braken-bush,
That grows upon yon lilye lee.’
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‘I will not yield to a braken-bush,
Nor yet will I yield to a brier;