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Название: Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance

Автор: Various

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СКАЧАТЬ Persë, thowe art a lord of lande,

      I am a yerle callyd within my contrë;

      Let all our men vppone a parti stande,

      and do the battell off the and of me.’

      20.

      20.1 ‘cors,’ curse.

      ‘Nowe Cristes cors on his crowne,’ sayd the lord Persë,

      ‘who-so-ever ther-to says nay!

      Be my troth, doughttë Doglas,’ he says,

      ‘thow shalt never se that day.

      21.

      21.4 ‘on,’ one.

      ‘Nethar in Ynglonde, Skottlonde, nar France,

      nor for no man of a woman born,

      But, and fortune be my chance,

      I dar met him, on man for on.’

      22.

      Then bespayke a squyar off Northombarlonde,

      Richard Wytharyngton was his nam:

      ‘It shall never be told in Sothe-Ynglonde,’ he says,

      ‘to Kyng Herry the Fourth for sham.

      23.

      ‘I wat youe byn great lordës twaw,

      I am a poor squyar of lande:

      I wylle never se my captayne fyght on a fylde,

      and stande my selffe and loocke on,

      But whylle I may my weppone welde,

      I wylle not fayle both hart and hande.’

      24.

      24.3 ‘And,’ If.

      That day, that day, that dredfull day!

      the first fit here I fynde;

      And youe wyll here any mor a the hountyng a the Chyviat,

      yet ys ther mor behynde.

      . … .

      25.

      25.4 ‘sloughe,’ slew.

      The Yngglyshe men hade ther bowys yebent,

      ther hartes wer good yenoughe;

      The first off arros that the shote off,

      seven skore spear-men the sloughe.

      26.

      26.4 ‘wouche,’ evil.

      Yet byddys the yerle Doglas vppon the bent,

      a captayne good yenoughe,

      And that was sene verament,

      for he wrought hom both woo and wouche.

      27.

      The Dogglas partyd his ost in thre,

      lyk a cheffe cheften off pryde;

      With suar spears off myghttë tre,

      the cum in on every syde:

      28.

      Thrughe our Yngglyshe archery

      gave many a wounde fulle wyde;

      Many a doughetë the garde to dy,

      which ganyde them no pryde.

      29.

      29.4 ‘basnites,’ light helmets or skull-caps.

      The Ynglyshe men let ther boÿs be,

      and pulde owt brandes that wer brighte;

      It was a hevy syght to se

      bryght swordes on basnites lyght.

      30.

      30.1 ‘myneyeple,’ = manople, a kind of long gauntlet.

      30.3 ‘freyke,’ man. So 32.1, 47.1, etc.

      Thorowe ryche male and myneyeple,

      many sterne the strocke done streght;

      Many a freyke that was fulle fre,

      ther undar foot dyd lyght.

      31.

      31.4 ‘myllan,’ Milan steel. Cp. ‘collayne,’ Battle of Otterburn, 54.4

      At last the Duglas and the Persë met,

      lyk to captayns of myght and of mayne;

      The swapte togethar tylle the both swat

      with swordes that wear of fyn myllan.

      32.

      Thes worthë freckys for to fyght,

      ther-to the wear fulle fayne,

      Tylle the bloode owte off thear basnetes sprente,

      as ever dyd heal or rayn.

      33.

      ‘Yelde the, Persë,’ sayde the Doglas,

      ‘and i feth I shalle the brynge

      Wher thowe shalte have a yerls wagis

      of Jamy our Skottish kynge.

      34.

      ‘Thou shalte have thy ransom fre,

      I hight the hear this thinge;

      For the manfullyste man yet art thowe

      that ever I conqueryd in filde fighttynge.’

      35.

      ‘Nay,’ sayd the lord Persë,

      ‘I СКАЧАТЬ