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"Yett shall not Scotts nor Scotland say, But I will vengeance take: I'll be revenged on them all, For brave Erie Percyes sake." ...

The Harcleys were an eminent family in Cumberland.-- See Fuller, p. 224. Whether this may be thought to be the same name, I do n ...

(book i. no. i.) was printed off, confirms the accounts there given of the "stagge" and the "roe." The four stanzas here inclos ...

II. Death's Final Conquest.......................................................................................... These fine ...

III. The Rising in the North........................................................................................ The subject ...

without any regular trial. The former of these caused at Durham sixty-three constables to be hanged at once. And the latter made ...

To Maister Norton[4] thou must goe In all the haste that ever may bee. "Commend me to that gentleman, And beare this letter here ...

Somewhat lyes brooding in thy breast; Whatever it bee, to mee declare." "Father, you are an aged man, Your head is white, your b ...

And word is brought to our royall queene Of the rysing in the North countrie. Her grace she turned her round about, And like a r ...

Earl of Westmoreland here mentioned, might on this occasion give the above device on his banner. After all, our old minstrel's v ...

IV. Northumberland Betrayed by Douglas. ............................................................... This ballad may be consi ...

He dwelleth on the border side, To him I'll goe right privilìe." Thus did the noble Percy 'plaine, With a heavy heart and wel-aw ...

"You shall byde here, good English lord, My brother is a traiterous man. "He is a traitor stout and stronge, As I tell you in pr ...

Than thinke a Douglas can he false, Or ever he will his guest betray." "If you'll give me no trust, my lord, Nor unto mee no cre ...

And he is gone to his noble Lord, Those sorrowful tidings him to show. "Now nay, now nay, good James Swynard, I may not believe ...

My sister is craftye, and wold beguile A thousand such as you and mee." When they had sayled[10] fifty myle, Now fifty mile upon ...

James Douglas Earl of Morton, elected Regent of Scotland, November 24, 1572. Of one of the English Marches. Lord Hunsden. Of th ...

V. My Mind to Me a Kingdom is. ............................................................................. This excellent phil ...

And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give; They lacke, I lend; they pine, I live. I laugh not at anot ...

agreeably modernized by the late Mr. Spence, in his little miscellaneous publication, intitled, "Moralities, &c. by Sir Harr ...