{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/child/ch172.htm","path":"neu/eng/child/ch172.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch172.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends & Sagas\u00a0\n England\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n \n 172A: Musselburgh Field\n \n \n 172A.1 ON the tenth day of December,\n And the fourth yeere of King Edwards raigne,\n Att Musleboorrowe, as I remember,\n Two goodly hosts there mett on a plaine.\n 172A.2 All that night they camped there,\n Soe did the Scotts, both stout and stubborne;\n But \"[wellaway,\"] it was their song,\n For wee haue taken them in their owne turne.\n 172A.3 Over night they carded for our English mens coates;\n They fished before their netts were spunn;\n A white for sixpence, a red for two groates;\n Now wisdome wold haue stayed till they had been woone.\n 172A.4 Wee feared not but that they wold fight,\n Yett itt was turned vnto their owne paine;\n Thoe against one of vs that they were eight,\n Yett with their owne weapons wee did them beat.\n 172A.5 On the twelfth day in the morne\n The made a face as the wold fight,\n But many a proud Scott there was downe borne,\n And many a ranke coward was put to flight.\n 172A.6 But when they heard our great gunnes cracke,\n Then was their harts turned into their hose;\n They cast down their weapons, and turned their backes,\n They ran soe fast that the fell on their nose.\n 172A.7 The Lord Huntley, wee had him there;\n With him hee brought ten thousand men,\n Yett, God bee thanked, wee made them such a banquett\n That none of them returned againe.\n 172A.8 Wee chased them to D[alkeith]\n * * * * *\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Next: 173. Mary Hamilton","title":"The Child Ballads: 172. Musselburgh Field","type":"page"}