The_Earl_of_Westmorland_(ballad)
The Earl of Westmorland (ballad) or "The Earle of Westmorlande" is a Scottish ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad 177 and with a Roud Index number of 4007. It is related to the events in the ballads "The Rising in the North" (Child Ballad 175) and "Northumberland betrayed by Douglas" (Child Ballad 176). The ballad opens with the following verse:
How long shall fortune faile me now,
And keepe me heare in deadlye dreade?
How long shall I in bale abide,
In misery my life to leade?