Probably founded remotely on the same happening as Otterburn. This is the ballad that stirred Sir Philip Sidney in his Defence of Poesie to remark: "Certeinly I must confesse my own barbarousness. I never heard the olde song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart mooved more than with a trumpet; and yet it is sung but by some blind crouder [fiddler], with no rougher voyce then rude stile: which, being so evill apparrelled in the dust and cob-webbes of that uncivillage, what would it worke trymmed in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar!" Addison's appreciation of it is in Nos. 70 and 74 of the Spectator.