{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/child/ch180.htm","path":"neu/eng/child/ch180.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch180.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 180A: King James and Brown\n \n \n 180A.1 AS I did walke my selfe alone,\n And by one garden greene,\n I heard a yonge prince make great moane,\n Which did turne my hart to teene.\n 180A.2 \u2018O Lord!\u2019 he then said vntou me,\n \u2018Why haue I liued soe long?\n For yonder comes a cruell Scott,\u2019\n Quoth hee, \u2019that will doe me some ronge.\u2019\n 180A.3 And then came traitor Douglas there,\n He came for to betray his king;\n Some they brought bills, and some they brought bowes,\n And some the brought other things.\n 180A.4 The king was aboue in a gallery,\n With a heauy heart;\n Vnto his body was sett about\n With swords and speares soe sharpe.\n 180A.5 \u2018Be you the lordes of Scottland,\u2019 he said,\n \u2018That hither for councell seeke to me?\n Or bee you traitors to my crowne,\n My blood that you wold see?\u2019\n 180A.6 \u2018Wee are the lords of Scottland,\u2019 they said,\n \u2018Nothing we come to craue of thee;\n But wee be traitors to thy crowne,\n Thy blood that wee will see.\u2019\n 180A.7 \u2018O fye vpon you, you false Scotts!\n For you neuer all trew wilbe;\n My grandfather you haue slaine,\n And caused my mother to flee.\n 180A.8 \u2018My grandfather you haue slaine,\n And my owne father you hanged on a tree;\n And now,\u2019 quoth he, \u2019The like treason\n You haue now wrought for me.\n 180A.9 \u2018Ffarwell hart, and farwell hand!\n Farwell all pleasures alsoe!\n Farwell th . . my head\n . . . .\n 180A.10 . . . .\n . . . .\n \u2018If thou wilt . .\n And soe goe away with mee.\u2019\n 180A.11 \u2018Goe marry thy daughter to whome thou wilt,\u2019\n Quoth Browne; \u2019Thou marrys none to me;\n For I\u2019le not be a traitor,\u2019 quoth Browne,\n \u2018For all the gold that euer I see.\u2019\n 180A.12 This Douglas, hearing Browne soe say,\n Began to flee away full fast;\n \u2018But tarry a while,\u2019 saies lusty Browne,\n \u2018I\u2019le make you to pay before you passe.\u2019\n 180A.13 He hath taken the Douglas prisoner,\n And hath brought him before the king;\n He kneeled low vpon the knee,\n For pardon there prainge.\n 180A.14 \u2018How shold I pardon thee,\u2019 saith the king,\n \u2018And thou\u2019le remaine a traitor still?\n For euer since that I was borne,\u2019\n Quoth he, \u2019Thou hast sought my blood to spill.\u2019\n 180A.15 \u2018For if you will grant me my pardon,\u2019 he said,\n \u2018Out of this place soe free,\n I wilbe sworne before your Grace\n A trew subiect to bee.\u2019\n 180A.16 \u2018God for-gaue his death,\u2019 said the king,\n \u2018When he was nayled vpon a tree;\n And as free as euer God forgaue his death,\n Douglas,\u2019 quoth he, \u2018I\u2019le forgiue thee.\n 180A.17 \u2018And all the traitors in Scottland,\u2019\n Quoth he, \u2019Both great and small;\n As free as euer God forgaue his death,\n Soe free I will forgiue them all.\u2019\n 180A.18 \u2018I thanke you for your pardon, king,\n That\tyou haue granted forth soe plaine;\n If I liue a twelue month to an end,\n You shall not aliue remaine.\n 180A.19 \u2018Tomorrow yet, or ere I dine,\n I meane to doo thee one good turne;\n For Edenborrow, that is thine owne,\u2019\n Quoth he, \u2018I will both h[arry] and [burne].\u2019\n 180A.20 Thus Douglas hied towards Edenborrow,\n And many of his men were gone beffore;\n And after him on euery side,\n With him there went some twenty score.\n 180A.21 But when that they did see him come,\n They cryed lowd with voices, saying,\n \u2018Yonder comes a false traitor,\n That wold haue slaine our king.\u2019\n 180A.22 They chaynd vp the gates of Edenborrow,\n And there the made them wonderous fast,\n And there Browne sett on Douglas againe,\n And quicklye did him ouer cast.\n 180A.23 But worde came backe againe to the king,\n With all the speed that euer might bee,\n That\ttraitor Douglas there was taken,\n And his body was there to see.\n 180A.24 \u2018Bring me his taker,\u2019 quoth the king,\n \u2018Come, quickly bring him vnto me!\n I\u2019le giue a thousand pound a yeere,\n What man soeuer he bee.\u2019\n 180A.25 But then they called lusty Browne;\n Sayes, \u2018Browne, come thou hither to mee.\n How oft hast thou foughten for my sake,\n And alwayes woone the victory?\u2019\n 180A.26 \u2018The first time that I fought for you,\n It was in Edenborrow, king;\n If there I had not stoutly stood,\n My leege, you neuer had beene king.\n 180A.27 \u2018The second time I fought for you,\n Here I will tell you in this place;\n I killd the sheriffs sonne of Carlile,\u2019\n Quoth he, \u2019That wold haue slaine your Grace.\n 180A.28 \u2018The third time that I fought for you,\n Here for to let you vnderstand,\n I slew the Bishopp of St Andrew[s],\u2019\n Quoth he, \u2019with a possat in [his hand],\u2019\n 180A.29 . . . quoth hee,\n \u2018That euer my manhood I did trye;\n I\u2019le make a vow for Englands sake\n That\tI will neuer battell flee.\u2019\n 180A.30 \u2018God amercy, Browne,\u2019 then said the king,\n \u2018And God amercy heartilye!\n Before I made thee but a knight,\n But now an earle I will make thee.\n 180A.31 \u2018God saue the queene of England,\u2019 he said,\n \u2018For her blood is verry neshe;\n As neere vnto her I am\n As a colloppe shorne from the fleshe.\n 180A.32 \u2018If I be false to England,\u2019 he said,\n \u2018Either in earnest or in iest,\n I might be likened to a bird,\u2019\n Quoth he, \u2019That did defile it nest.\u2019\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Next: 181. The Bonnie Earl o' Moray","title":"The Child Ballads: 180. King James and Brown","type":"page"}