“This day must we do battle,
I will to you declare;
Instead of silken doublets,
ye should your hauberks wear,
And in the place of mantles
take bucklers good and wide—
That if they seek a quarrel,
the brunt ye may abide.
“This day must we do battle,
I will to you declare;
Instead of silken doublets,
ye should your hauberks wear,
And in the place of mantles
take bucklers good and wide—
That if they seek a quarrel,
the brunt ye may abide.