In wild amaze, in speechless wo, 'And rising up in furious haste 'A crowd, that from the castle came, "It chanc'd that on that very morn 'And soon those honoured dear remains 'For me, I loath'd my wretched life, Till time, and thought, and holy men, 'They rais'd my heart to that pure source *i. e. sword. 'No more the slave of human pride, Vain hope and sordid care; I meekly vowed to spend my life The bold sir Bertram now no more, But poor and humble Benedict, My lands I gave to feed the poor, This sweet sequestered vale I chose, These rocks, and hanging grove ; For oft beside this murmuring stream My love was wont to rove. My noble friend approv'd my choice, Full fifty winters, all forlorn, And daily o'er this sculptured saint And thou, dear brother of my heart! The sad remembrance of thy fate Still makes my bosom rue! 'Yet not unpitied pass'd my life, The Percy and his noble son 'Oft the great earl from toils of state, 'But length of life is length of wo! * I liv'd to mourn his godlike son, But thou the honours of thy race, He ceas'd, and on the lovely pair And now what present course to take They ask the good old sire; And, guided by his sage advice, To Scotland they retire. Meantime their suit such favour found At Raby's stately hall, Earl Neville and his princely spouse Now gladly pardon all. * Hotspur. She suppliant at her nephew's* throne To all the honours of his race The Percy was restor❜d. The youthful earl still more and more Admir'd his beauteous dame: Nine noble sons to him she bore, All worthy of their name. Percy. Note. The account given in the foregoing ballad of young Percy, the son of Hotspur, receives the following confirmation from the old Chronicle of Whitby. 'Henry Percy, the son of sir Henry Percy, that was slayne at Shrewesbery, and of Elizabeth, the daughter of the erle of Marche, after the death of his father and grauntsyre, was exiled into Scotlandt in the time of king Henry the Fourth but in the time of king Henry the Fifth, by the labour of Johanne the countess of Westmerland (whose daughter Alianor he had wedded in coming into England), he recovered the king's grace, and the countye of Northumberland, so was the second erle of Northumberland. 'And of this Alianor his wife, he begate IX sonnes, and III daughters, whose names be Johanne, that is buried at Whytbye; Thomas, lord Egremont; Katheryne Gray of Rythyn; sir Raffe Percy; William Percy, a byshopp; Richard Percy; John, that dyed without issue; [another John, called by Vincent, Johannes Percy senior de Warkworth;] George Percy, clerk; Henry, that dyed without issue; Anne,' [besides the eldest son and successor here omitted, because he comes in below, viz.] 'Henry Percy, the third erle of Northumberland.' Vid. Harl. MSS. No. 692, (26) in the British Museum. *King Henry V. A.D. 1414. ti. e. remained an exile in Scotland during the reign of king Henry IV. In Scotia exulavit tempore Henrici Regis quarti. Lat. MS. penes. Duc. North. See his Great Baronag. No. 20, in the Herald's Office. COOPER'S HILL. SURE there are poets which did never dream A poet, thou Parnassus art to me. Paul's, the late theme of such a Muse,* whose flight Whose state and wealth, the business and the crowd,' * Mr. Waller. |