Every man saw that he did so,
That ryal was ever in rowghte[1062]:
Every man schoote his horse him fro
And lighted him round about.
XXXIII
Sir Harry Percy took the field
Even thus, as I you say;
Jesus Christe in hevyn on height
Did help him well that day.
XXXIV
But nine thousand, there was no more—
The chronicle will not layne[1063]—
Forty thousand of Scots and four
That day fought them again[1064].
XXXV
But when the battel began to join,
In haste there came a knight;
And letters fair forth hath he ta’en,
And thus he sayd full right:
XXXVI
‘My lord your father greets you well,
With many a noble knight;
He doth desire you now to bide,
That he may see this fight.