But when they see his deadlye face, 185 And eyes soe hollow in his head, "I wold give," quoth the king, "a thousand markes, This man were alive as hee is dead. Yett for the manfull part hee playd, Which fought soe well with heart and hand, 190 His men shall have twelvepence a day, Till they come to my brother kings high land." 13. i.e. did not salute. 84. pounds. MS. 121-4. This stanza occurs also in _Johnie Armstrang_, vol. vi. p. 44. 156. That is the Great Harry, built in 1504, at an expense of fourteen thousand pounds. "She was," says Hume, "properly speaking, the first ship in the English navy. Before this period, when the prince wanted a fleet, he had no other expedient than hiring or pressing ships from the merchants." 175-6. ... Erle of Nottingham, And soe was never, &c. MS. FLODDEN FIELD. From Ritson's _Ancient Songs_, ii. 70. "The battle of Flodden, in Northumberland, was fought the 9th of September, 1513, being the fifth year of King Henry the Eighth (who, with a great army, was then before Terouen in France), between Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, commander-in-chief of the English forces, and James the Fourth, King of Scots, with an inferior army of 15,000 men, who were entirely routed with great slaughter, their heroic sovereign being left dead upon the field. "The following ballad may possibly be as ancient as any thing we have on the subject. It is given from _The most pleasant and delectible history of John Winchcomb, otherwise called Jack of Newberry_, written by Thomas Deloney, who thus speaks of it: 'In disgrace of the Scots, and in remembrance of the famous atchieved victory, the commons of England made this song, which to this day is not forgotten of many.'" This ballad is very evidently not the work of Deloney, but derived by him from tradition. There is a piece called _Flodden Field_ in Herd's _Scottish Songs_, i. 86. It is made up of certain ridiculous anonymous verses, and of the stanzas written by Miss Jane Elliot and by Mrs. Cockburn to the old air _The Flowers of the Forest_,--"I've heard them lilting," and "I've seen the smiling." The first and last lines of the first stanza of Miss Elliot's verses are from an ancient and now forgotten song. "I've heard them lilting at the ewes milking ......... ......... The flowers of the forest are a' wede away." A lady repeated to Sir Walter Scott another fragment of the original ballad. "I ride single on my saddle, For the flowers of the forest are a' wede away." _Minstrelsy_, iii. 333. King Jamie hath made a vow, Keep it well if he may! That he will be at lovely London Upon Saint James his day. "Upon Saint James his day at noon, 5 At fair London will I be, And all the lords in merry Scotland, They shall dine there with me."