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<DATE>2009-01-06</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B081153.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Famous Sea-Fight between Captain <HI>Ward</HI> and the <HI>Rain-bow.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of Captain <HI>Ward.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>STrike up you lu&s;ty Gallants,</L>
<L>with Mu&s;ick and &s;ound of Drum.</L>
<L>For we have di&s;cryed a Rower.</L>
<L>upon the Sea is come.</L>
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<LG>
<L>His name is <HI>Captain Ward,</HI></L>
<L>right well it doth appear:</L>
<L>There has not b&eacute;en &s;uch a Rower</L>
<L>found out this thou&s;and years.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For he has &s;ent unto our King,</L>
<L>the &s;ixth of <HI>January,</HI></L>
<L>De&s;iring that he might come in</L>
<L>with all his company.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And if your King will let me come,</L>
<L>till I my tale have told,</L>
<L>I will be&s;tow for my ran&s;ome,</L>
<L>full thirty Tun of Gold.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O nay, O nay, then &s;ayes our King,</L>
<L>O nay this may not be,</L>
<L>To yield to &s;uch a Rower,</L>
<L>my &s;elf will not agree.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He has deceived the Frenchman,</L>
<L>likewi&s;e the King of Spain:</L>
<L>And how can he be true to me</L>
<L>that hath been fal&s;e to twain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With that our King provided,</L>
<L>a Ship of worthy fame,</L>
<L>Rainbow &s;he is &s;o called,</L>
<L>if you would know her name.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now the gallant Rainbow,</L>
<L>&s;he Rowes up on the Sea,</L>
<L>Five hundred gallant Seamen</L>
<L>do bear her company.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Dutch man, and the Spaniard,</L>
<L>&s;he made them for to flye,</L>
<L>Al&s;o the bony Frenchman,</L>
<L>as &s;he mot them on the Sea.</L>
</LG>
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<LG>
<L>WHen as this Gallant Rainbow,</L>
<L>did come where <HI>Ward</HI> did lie,</L>
<L>Where is the Captain of this Ship,</L>
<L>this gallant Rainbow did cry.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O that am I &s;ayes Captain <HI>Ward,</HI></L>
<L>there's no man bids me lye,</L>
<L>And if thou art the Kings fair Ship,</L>
<L>thou art welcome unto me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I'le tell thee what &s;ayes <HI>Rainbow,</HI></L>
<L>our King is in great grief,</L>
<L>That thou &s;hould&s;t lye upon the Sea</L>
<L>and play the Arrant thief.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And will not let our Merchant Ships</L>
<L>pa&s;&s;e as they did before,</L>
<L>Such tidings to our King is come</L>
<L>which grieves his heart full &s;ore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With that this gallant <HI>Rainbow,</HI></L>
<L>&s;he &s;hot out of her pride.</L>
<L>Full fifty gallant bra&s;&s;e pieces</L>
<L>charged on every &s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Although the&s;e gallant &s;hooters,</L>
<L>prevailed not a pin,</L>
<L>Though they were bra&s;s on the out&s;ide</L>
<L>yet <HI>Ward</HI> was &s;teel within.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>&s;hoot on &s;hoot on, &s;ayes Captain <HI>Ward,</HI></L>
<L>your &s;port well plea&s;eth me,</L>
<L>And he that fir&s;t give over,</L>
<L>&s;hall yield unto the Sea.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I never wronged an Engli&s;h ship,</L>
<L>but the Turk and King of Spain,</L>
<L>For and the Iovial Dutchman,</L>
<L>as I met on the main.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If I had known your Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">g,</L>
<L>but one two years before,</L>
<L>I would have &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ed brave <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> life,</L>
<L>who&s;e death did grieve me &s;ore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Go tell the King of <HI>England,</HI></L>
<L>go tell him thus from me,</L>
<L>If he Raign King of all the Land,</L>
<L>I will raign King at Sea.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>With that the Royal <HI>Rainbow</HI> &s;hot,</L>
<L>and &s;hot, and &s;hot in vain,</L>
<L>And left the Rovers company,</L>
<L>and returned home again.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our Royal King of <HI>England,</HI></L>
<L>your Ship's return'd again,</L>
<L>For <HI>Wards</HI> &s;hip is &s;o &s;trong,</L>
<L>&s;he never will be tane.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O everla&s;ting &s;ayes our King,</L>
<L>I have lo&s;t Iewels three,</L>
<L>Which would agone to the Seas,</L>
<L>and brought proud <HI>Ward</HI> to me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The fir&s;t was Lord <HI>Clifford,</HI></L>
<L>Earle of <HI>Cumberland.</HI></L>
<L>The &s;econd was the Lord <HI>Mountjoy,</HI></L>
<L>as you &s;hall under&s;tand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The third was brave <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI></L>
<L>from field would never fl&eacute;e,</L>
<L>Who would have gone unto the Sea,</L>
<L>and brought proud <HI>Ward</HI> to me.</L>
</LG>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for Fr. Coles at the &s;ign of the Lamb in the Old-Baily.</P>
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