An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) by Robert S. (Robert Sangster) Rait

Author:Robert S. (Robert Sangster) Rait [Rait, Robert S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780526357956
Google: bzqbxAEACAAJ
Publisher: Creative Media Partners, LLC
Published: 2019-02-28T00:18:37+00:00

on the English right, Sir Edmund Howard fell back before the charge of the Scottish borderers, who, forthwith, devoted themselves to plunder. The centre was fiercely contested; the Lord High Admiral of England, a son of Surrey, defeated Crawford and Montrose, and attacked the division with which James himself was encountering Surrey, while the archers on the left of the English centre rendered unavailing the brave charge of the Highlanders. With artillery and with archery the English had drawn the Scottish attack, and the battle of Flodden was but a variation on every fight since Dupplin Moor. Finally the Scots formed themselves into a ring of spearmen, and the English, with their arrows and their long bills, kept up a continuous attack. The story has been told once for all:

"But yet, though thick the shafts as snow,

Though charging knights as whirlwinds go,

Though bill-men ply the ghastly blow,

Unbroken was the ring;

The stubborn spearmen still made good

Their dark impenetrable wood,

Each stepping where their comrade stood

The instant that he fell.

No thought was there of dastard flight;

Link'd in the serried phalanx tight

Groom fought like noble, squire like knight,

As fearlessly and well;

Till utter darkness closed her wing

O'er their thin host and wounded king."

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