‘To whom must I yield,’ quoth Earl Percy,

‘Now that I see it must be so?’

32

‘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.’

33

‘I will not yield to a braken-bush,

Nor yet will I yield to a brier;