J. F. Campbell Collection > Minstrelsy of the Scottish border > Volume 1

APPENDIX, No. I. cxliii
fereful sights. And unyversally all their company saye
playnly,the devil was that nyght among they m vi tymys;
which mysfortune hath blemyshed the best journey that
was made in Scotland many yeres. I assure your grace
I found the Scottes, at this tyme, the boldest men, and
the hotest, that ever I sawe any nation, and all the jour-
ney, upon all parts of th' armye, kepte us with soo con-
tynuall skyrmyshe, that I never sawe the like. If they
might assemble xl M as good men as I nowe sawe, xv c
or ij M, it wold bee a hard encountre to mete theym.
Pitie it is of my Lord Dacres losse of the horses of his
company ; he brought with hym above iiij M. men, and
came and lodged one night in Scotland, in his moost
mortal enemy's contre. There is noo herdyer, ner bettir
knyght, but often tyme he doth not use the most sure
order, which he hath nowe payd derely for. Written
at Berwike the xxvij of September.
Your most bownden,
T. SURREY.