Eightscore yards distant from the mark from which the archers were to shoot stood ten fair targets, each target marked by a flag of the color belonging to the band that was to shoot thereat.
While I turn my fond glance on the monarch of piers, Whose throne has stood firm through his eightscore of years, My thought travels backward and reaches the day When they drove the first pile on the edge of the bay.
Then came into the field the king of North Wales, with eightscore helms, and King Badgemagus came with fourscore helms.
Yes, there is a man in Westmorland, 5 And Johnny Armstrong they do him call; He has no lands nor rents coming in, Yet he keeps eightscore men within his hall.
Away with thee, thou false traytor, 45 No pardon will I grant to thee, But to-morrow morning by eight of the clock, I will hang up thy eightscore men and thee.
Now Johnny he is to Edenborough gone, With his eightscore men so gallantly, And every one of them on a milk-white steed, 35 With their bucklers and swords hanging to their knee.
But when John came the King before, With his eightscore men so gallant to see, The King he mov'd his bonnet to him, He thought he had been a king as well as he.
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