And wrote a letter fair to see,

Saying, Good my lord, grant me my boon,

And yield that banisht man to mee.

Earle Percy at the supper sate,

With many a goodly gentleman;

The wylie Douglas then bespake,

And thus to flyte with him began.

43 4.

To-morrow a shootinge will bee held

Among the lords of the North countrye.