Capitolo 74
Greece; and for this reason Valerius Flaccus and Statius that were
both the Romans, justly be deride for having chosen the
the consignment of the Gilded Fleece and the Wars of Thebes for the
subjects of their writings of epic poem.
The poet in front of us has not only discovered a hero in his/her his/her own country,
but you increase his reputation from many good-looking accidents. The
English it is the first ones who the field and the last who end him/it take.
The English only bring fifteen one hundred to the battle, Scottish two
thousand. The English hold the field with fifty-three, Scottish
retires with fifty-five; the whole rest on every side that is killed in
battle. But the most extraordinary circumstance of some kind is the
different way in which you/they receive the Scots and king English the
news of this struggle, and of the deaths of the great men in that they commanded
it:
These news was brought to Edinburgh,
Where the king of Scotland reigned,
That valiant Earl Douglas suddenly
It was with a killed arrow.
"Or heavy news!" It said king James,
"Scotland can testify both,
I don't have captain anymore
Of such account as him."
Likes news for Governare Henry it came,
Among as short a space,
That Percies of Northumberland
You/he/she was killed in Chevy-hunting.
"Now God is with him", says our king,
"Sith 'the twill anybody better both,
I have trust I have inside my kingdom
Five hundred good person as him.
"He/she anchors not Scottish neither Scotland says
But I want revenge takes,
And has avenged on all of them
For brave God the cause of Percy."
This vote full good the king completed
Later above Humble-in down,
In the fifty riders of one day you/he/she was killed,
With gentlemen of the great renown.
And after all of small account
It did the a lot of die of thousand, & the c.
To the same duration that our poet shows a praiseworthy partiality to his
farmers, he represents the Scots after a non inconvenient way this way
daring and it faces a people:
Earl Douglas on a milk-white steed,