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CANTO VI.
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From either squire; but spurr'd amain,And, dashing through the battle-plain, His way to Surrey took.
XXIV.710'———The good Lord Marmion, by my life! Welcome to danger's hour!—Short greeting serves in time of strife:— Thus have I ranged my power:Myself will rule this central host,715 Stout Stanley fronts their right,My sons command the vaward post, With Brian Tunstall, stainless knight; Lord Dacre, with his horsemen light, Shall be in rear-ward of the fight,720And succour those that need it most. Now, gallant Marmion, well I know, Would gladly to the vanguard go;Edmund, the Admiral, Tunstall there,With thee their charge will blithely share;725There fight thine own retainers too,Beneath De Burg, thy steward true.'—'Thanks, noble Surrey!' Marmion said,Nor farther greeting there he paid;But, parting like a thunderbolt,730First in the vanguard made a halt, Where such a shout there roseOf 'Marmion! Marmion!' that the cry,Up Flodden mountain shrilling high, Startled the Scottish foes.
XXV.735Blount and Fitz-Eustace rested stillWith Lady Clare upon the hill;On which, (for far the day was spent,)The western sunbeams now were bent.The cry they heard, its meaning knew,740Could plain their distant comrades view:
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