This battle began in Cheviot
An hour before the noon,
And when the even-song bell was rung
The battle was not half done.
XLVI
They took [their stand] on either hand
By the [lee][1118] light of the moon;
Many had no strength for to stand
In Cheviot the hills abune.
XLVII
Of fifteen hundred archers of England
Went away but seventy-and-three;
Of twenty hundred spearmen of Scotland
But even five-and-fiftỳ.
XLVIII
There was slain with the bold Percye
Sir John of Agerstoune,
Sir Roger, the hendè[1119] Hartley,
Sir William, the bold Herone.
XLIX
Sir George, the worthy Loumlye,
A knight of great renown,
Sir Ralph, the richè Rabye,
With dints were beaten down.