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The More Modern Ballad Of Chevy Chace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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God prosper long our noble king	A
Our liffes and safetyes all	B
A woefull hunting once there did	C
In Chevy Chace befall	B
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To drive the deere with hound and horne	D
Erle Percy took his way	E
The child may rue that is unborne	D
The hunting of that day	E
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The sout Erle of Northumberland	E
A vow to God did make	F
His pleasure in the Scottish woods	G
Three summers days to take	F
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The cheefest harts in Chevy Chase	H
To kill and beare away	E
These tydings to Erle Douglas came	I
In Scotland where he lay	E
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Who sent Erle Percy present word	E
He wold prevent his sport	E
The English Erle not fearing that	E
Did to the woods resort	E
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With fifteen hundred bow men bold	E
All chosen men of might	E
Who knew full well in time of neede	E
To ayme their shafts arright	E
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The gallant greyhounds swiftly ran	D
To chase the fallow deere	J
On Munday they began to hunt	E
Ere day light did appeare	J
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And long before high noone they had	E
An hundred fat buckes slaine	D
Then having din'd the drovyers went	E
To rouze the deare againe	D
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The bow men mustered on the hills	K
Well able to endure	J
Theire backsides all with speciall care	J
That day were guarded sure	J
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The hounds ran swiftly through the woods	G
The nible deere to take	F
That with their cryes the hills an dales	L
An eccho shrill did make	F
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Lord Percy to the quarry went	E
To view the tender deere	J
Quoth he 'Erle Douglas promised	E
This day to meet me heere	J
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'But if I though he wold not come	M
Noe longer wold I stay '	-
With that a brave younge gentleman	D
Thus to the Erle did say	E
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'Loe yonder doth Erle Douglas come	M
His men in armour bright	E
Full twenty hundred Scottish speres	E
All marching in our sight	E
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'All men of pleasant Tivydale	E
Fast by the river Tweede '	-
'O cease your sport ' Erle Percy said	E
'And take your bowes with speede	E
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'And now with me my countrymen	D
Your courage forth advance	E
For never was there champion yett	E
In Scotland or in France	E
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'That ever did on horseback come	M
But if my hap it were	J
I durst encounter man for man	D
With him to breake a spere '	-
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Erle Douglas on his milke white steede	E
Most like a baron bold	E
Rode formost of his company	D
Whose armour shone like gold	E
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'Show me ' sayd hee 'whose men you bee	D
That hunt soe boldly heere	J
That without my consent doe chase	E
And kill my fallow deere '	-
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The man that first did answer make	F
Was noble Percy hee	D
Who sayd 'Wee list not to declare	J
Nor shew whose men wee bee	D
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'Yet will wee spend our deerest blood	E
Thy cheefest harts to slay '	-
Then Douglas swore a solempne oathe	N
And thus in rage did say	E
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'Ere thus I will out braved bee	D
One of us two shall dye	O
I know thee well an erle thou art	E
Lord Percy soe am I	O
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'But trust me Percy pittye it were	J
And great offence to kill	E
Any of these our guiltlesse men	D
For they have done no ill	E
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'Let thou and I the battell trye	O
And set our men aside '	-
'Accurst bee he ' Erle Percy sayd	E
'By whome this is denyed '	-
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Then stept a gallant squier forth	N
Witherington was his name	I
Who said 'I wold not have it told	E
To Henry our king for shame	I
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'That ere my captaine fought on foote	E
And I stood looking on	D
You bee two erles ' sayd Witherington	D
'And I a squier alone	D
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'He doe the best that doe I may	E
While I have power to stand	E
While I have power to weeld my sword	E
Ile fight with hart and hand '	-
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Our English archers bent their bowes	E
Their harts were good and trew	J
Att the first flight of arrowes sent	E
Full four score Scots they slew	J
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Yet bides Earl Douglas on the bent	E
As Chieftain stout and good	E
As valiant Captain all unmov'd	E
The shock he firmly stood	E
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His host he parted had in three	D
As Leader ware and try'd	E
And soon his spearmen on their foes	E
Bare down on every side	E
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Throughout the English archery	D
They dealt full many a wound	E
But still our valiant Englishmen	D
All firmly kept their ground	E
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And throwing strait their bows away	E
They grasp'd their swords so bright	E
And now sharp blows a heavy shower	J
On shields and helmets light	E
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They clos'd full fast on everye side	E
Noe slacknes there was found	E
And many a gallant gentleman	D
Lay gasping on the ground	E
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O Christ it was a griefe to see	D
And likewise for to heare	J
The cries of men lying in their gore	J
And scattered here and there	J
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At last these two stout erles did meet	E
Like captaines of great might	E
Like lyons wood they layd on lode	E
And made a cruell fight	E
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They fought untill they both did sweat	E
With swords of tempered steele	E
Until the blood like drops of rain	D
They trickling downe did feele	E
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'Yeeld thee Lord Percy ' Douglas sayd	E
'In faith I will thee bringe	P
Where thou shalt high advanced bee	D
By James our Scottish king	A
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'Thy ransome I will freely give	Q
And thus report of thee	D
Thou art the most couragious knight	E
That ever I did see '	-
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'Noe Douglas ' quoth Erle Percy then	D
'Thy proffer I doe scorne	D
I will not yeelde to any Scott	E
That ever yett was borne '	-
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With that there came an arrow keene	D
Out of an English bow	R
Which strucke Erle Douglas to the heart	E
A deepe and deadlye blow	E
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Who never spake more words than these	E
'Fight on my merry men all	E
For why my life is at an end	E
Lord Percy sees my fall '	-
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Then leaving liffe Erle Percy tooke	S
The dead man by the hand	E
And said 'Erle Douglas for thy life	T
Wold I had lost my land	E
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'O Christ my verry hart doth bleed	E
With sorrow for thy sake	F
For sure a more renowned knight	E
Mischance cold never take '	-
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A knight amongst the Scotts there was	E
Which saw Erle Douglas dye	O
Who streight in wrath did vow revenge	P
Upon the Lord Percye	O
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Sir Hugh Mountgomerye was he call'd	E
Who with a spere most bright	E
Well mounted on a gallant steed	E
Ran fiercely through the fight	E
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And past the English archers all	E
Without all dread or feare	J
And through Erle Percyes body then	D
He thrust his hatefull spere	J
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With such a vehement force and might	E
He did his body gore	J
The speare ran through the other side	E
A large cloth yard and more	J
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So thus did both these nobles dye	O
Whose courage none could staine	D
An English archer then perceiv'd	E
The noble erle was slaine	D
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He had a bow bent in his hand	E
Made of a trusty tree	J
An arrow of a cloth yard long	U
Up to the head drew hee	J
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Against Sir Hugh Mountgomerye	O
So right the shaft he sett	E
The grey goose wing that was thereon	D
In his harts bloode was wett	E
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This fight did last from breake of day	E
Till setting of the sun	D
For when they rung the evening bell	E
The battel scarce was done	D
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With stout Erle Percy there was slaine	D
Sir John of Egerton	D
Sir Robert Ratcliff and Sir John	D
Sir James that bold Baron	D
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And with Sir George and stout Sir James	E
Both knights of good account	E
Good Sir Ralph Rabby there was slaine	D
Whose prowesse did surmount	E
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For Witherington needs must I wayle	E
As one in doleful dumpes	E
For when his legs were smitten off	V
He fought upon his stumpes	E
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And with Erle Douglas there was slaine	D
Sir Hugh Mountgomerye	O
Sir Charles Murray that from the feeld	E
One foote wold never flee	E
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Sir Charles Murray of Ratcliff too	E
His sisters sonne was hee	E
Sir David Lamb so well esteem'd	E
Yet saved cold not bee	E
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And the Lord Maxwell in like case	E
Did with Erle Douglas dye	O
Of twenty hundred Scottish speres	E
Scarce fifty five did flye	O
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Of fifteen hundred Englishmen	D
Went home but fifty three	E
The rest were slaine in Chevy Chace	E
Under the greene wood tree	E
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Next day did many widowes come	M
Their husbands to bewayle	E
They washt their wounds in brinish teares	E
But all wold not prevayle	E
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Theyr bodyes bathed in purple blood	E
They bore with them away	E
They kist them dead a thousand times	E
Ere they were cladd in clay	E
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This newes was brought to Eddenborrow	E
Where Scotlands king did raigne	D
That brave Erle Douglas suddenlye	O
Was with an arrow slaine	D
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'O heavy newes ' King James did say	E
'Scotland can witnesse bee	E
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