Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads ...

AND BALLADS. 41
Thence chafed I Mordered away,
Who fiedd to London ryght,
From London to Winchefter, and
To Cornewalle tooke his flyght. 80
And flill I him purfued with fpeede
Till at the laft we mett
; :
Wherby an appointed day of fight
Was there agreede and fett.
Where we did fight, of mortal life 8$
Eche other to deprive,
Till of a hundred thoufand men
Scarce one was left a live.
There all the noble chivalrye
Of Brittaine tooke their end. 90
O fee how fickle is their ftate
That doe on fates depend !
There all the traiterous men were flaine
Not one efcapte away
And there dyed all my vallyant knightes. 95
Alas ! that woefull day I
Two and twenty yeere I ware the crowne
In honor and great fame ;
And thus by death was fuddenlye
Deprived of the fame.
Ver. 92. Feates. MS.
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