‘Now yield thee, yield thee, Percy,’ he said,
‘Or I vow I’le lay thee low!’
‘To whom shall I yield?’ said Earl Percy,
‘Now I see it maun be so.’—
LXIII
‘Thou shalt not yield to lord nor loun,
Nor yet shalt thou to me;
But yield thee to the bracken bush
Grows on yon lilye-lee.’—
LXIV
‘I winna yield to a bracken bush,
Nor yet I will to a brere[1078];
But I would yield to Earl Douglas,
Or Montgomery if he was here.’
LXV
As soon as he knew Montgomery,
He stuck his sword’s point in ground;
The Montgomery was a courteous knight,
And quickly took him by the hand.
LXVI
There was slayne upon the Scottès’ side,
For sooth and certaynlye,
Sir James a Douglas there was slayne,
That day that he cou’d dye.