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Bengairn and Caerlochan their blazes display,

And they warn the bold spearmen of Fair Galloway.

But the damsels of Esk and of Annan may mourn,

And in vain may they look for their lovers’ return;

On the green dale of Dryburgh they rest in their grave,

And o’er them the hemlock and rank nettles wave.

And few have escaped from the Galloway spear,

That followed the flying and glanced in their rear,

And the moss-troopers’ widows are ruing the day

Their husbands departed for Fair Galloway.

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God prosper long our noble King,

Our liffes and saftyes all!

A woefull hunting once there was

In Chevy-Chase befall.

To drive the deere with hound and horne,

Erle Percy took the way;

The child may rue that is unborne

The hunting of that day!

The stout Erle of Northumberland

A vow to God did make,

His pleasure in the Scottish woods

Three sommers days to take;

The cheefest harts in Chevy-Chase

To kill and beare away.

These tydings to Erle Douglas came,