War > Battle of Chevy-chace

'The 13attic of Chevy-Chace
our lives and fafeties all j
A woeful hunting once there did
in Chevy Chace befal.
To drive the deer, with hound and horn;
, Lorn Percy took his way :
The child may rue that is unborn
the hunting of that day.
The stout Earl of Northumberland
a vow to God did make,
His pleasure in the Scotiih woods
three fummer days to take ;
Tt * ' “ 1 ’ ;vy-Chace
The tidings to Earl Douglas came
in Scotland, where he lay :
\yio fent Ear] Peicy prefeat word,
Jt.he would pifevent his fporf,
Who kjjgrV full well, in time of need,
to ami their (hafts aright.
The‘g?Unut greyhounds Iwvftly ran -
to chace the fallow deer;
On Monday they began to hunt,
when daylight did appear ;
And, long before, high noon, they had
a hundred fat bucks ilain ;
Then having din’d, the rovers went
The bowmen muikr’d qn the hUls,
well able to endure j
■ God profper long our noble king,
to route them up again.