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SIR JOHN FROISSART Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.1

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SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.1
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About .this time, many of the tiobles and others, deiirous of a fettled peace betwcn the Scots and Engliih, propofed a marriage between the young king of Scotland and the filler of the king of neck, which contained the heart of Bruce, he threw it before him, and cried, ' Now pafs thou onward as thou was wont, and Doughs will follow thee, or Se ! The fugitives rallied — Surrounded and overwhelmed by fuperior numbers, Douglas fell, while attempting to refcuexfir William St. Clare, of Roilin, who fhared his fate. Robert and Walter Logan, both of them knights, were flain with Douglas. His friend fir 'William Keith, having had his arm broke, was detained from the battle. His few furviving companions found his body in the field, together with the caiket, and reverently conveyed them to Scotland. The remains of Douglas were interred in the fepulchre of his fathers, in the church of Douglas, and the heart of Bruce was dcpofited at Melros. " His natural, fon, Archibald Douglas, erecied a maible monument to his memory ; but his countrymen have more effectually perpetuated his fame, by beftowing on him the name of ' the good fir James Douglas.' Fordun reports, that Douglas was thirteen times defeated in battle, and fifty feven times victorious. " Perhaps my readers will not diflike'to fee the portrait of Douglas drawn by Barbour, p. 13. i c Invifage was he fome deal gray, And had black hair, as 1 heard fay, Bat then of limbs, he was well made, With bones great, and /houldera braid. His body well made and lenzie, A s they that faw him faid to me. When he was blyth, he was lovely And meek, and fweet in company ; But who in battle might him fee, Another countenance had he ; And in his fpeech he lifpt fome deal, ι But that fet him right wonder. wcll.M


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