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161. The Battle of Otterburn

P. 294. St. George our Lady's knight.

A nemnede sein Gorge our leuedi knijt:

Sir Beues of Hamtoun, ed. Kölbing, v. 2817, p. 129; Maitland Club ed., v. 2640. (G.L.K., who also gave me the case in Roister Doister.)

"Now holy St. George, myne only avower,
In whom I trust for my protection,
O very Chevalier of the stourished Flower,
By whose Hands thy Sword and Shield hast wone,
Be mediator, that she may to her Sone
Cause me to hear Rex splendens songen on hye,
Before the Trinitye, when that I shall dye."

Poem on the Willoughbies of Eresby, in the form of a prayer to St. George put into the mouth of one of the Willoughby family, Dugdale, Baronage of England, 1676, II, 85, 86. Dugdale does not date the Manuscript The male line of the Willoughbies became extinct in 1525.

End-Notes

(3. flourished?
4. thou thy?)
(G.L.K.)

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