The famous sea-fight between Captain Ward and the Rain-bow. To the tune of Captain Ward.

The famous sea-fight between Captain Ward and the Rain-bow. To the tune of Captain Ward.

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The Famous Sea-Fight between Captain Ward and the Rain-bow.

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The Famous Sea-Fight between Captain Ward and the Rain-bow.

To the Tune of Captain Ward.

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STrike up you lusty Gallants,

with Musick and sound of Drum.

For we have discryed a Rower.

upon the Sea is come.

His name is Captain Ward,

right well it doth appear:

There has not béen such a Rower

found out this thousand years.

For he has sent unto our King,

the sixth of January,

Desiring that he might come in

with all his company.

And if your King will let me come,

till I my tale have told,

I will bestow for my ransome,

full thirty Tun of Gold.

O nay, O nay, then sayes our King,

O nay this may not be,

To yield to such a Rower,

my self will not agree.

He has deceived the Frenchman,

likewise the King of Spain:

And how can he be true to me

that hath been false to twain.

With that our King provided,

a Ship of worthy fame,

Rainbow she is so called,

if you would know her name.

Now the gallant Rainbow,

she Rowes up on the Sea,

Five hundred gallant Seamen

do bear her company.

The Dutch man, and the Spaniard,

she made them for to flye,

Also the bony Frenchman,

as she mot them on the Sea.

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WHen as this Gallant Rainbow,

did come where Ward did lie,

Where is the Captain of this Ship,

this gallant Rainbow did cry.

O that am I sayes Captain Ward,

there's no man bids me lye,

And if thou art the Kings fair Ship,

thou art welcome unto me.

I'le tell thee what sayes Rainbow,

our King is in great grief,

That thou shouldst lye upon the Sea

and play the Arrant thief.

And will not let our Merchant Ships

passe as they did before,

Such tidings to our King is come

which grieves his heart full sore.

With that this gallant Rainbow,

she shot out of her pride.

Full fifty gallant brasse pieces

charged on every side.

Although these gallant shooters,

prevailed not a pin,

Though they were brass on the outside

yet Ward was steel within.

shoot on shoot on, sayes Captain Ward,

your sport well pleaseth me,

And he that first give over,

shall yield unto the Sea.

I never wronged an English ship,

but the Turk and King of Spain,

For and the Iovial Dutchman,

as I met on the main.

If I had known your Ki [...]g,

but one two years before,

I would have s [...]ed brave Essex life,

whose death did grieve me sore.

Go tell the King of England,

go tell him thus from me,

If he Raign King of all the Land,

I will raign King at Sea.

With that the Royal Rainbow shot,

and shot, and shot in vain,

And left the Rovers company,

and returned home again.

Our Royal King of England,

your Ship's return'd again,

For Wards ship is so strong,

she never will be tane.

O everlasting sayes our King,

I have lost Iewels three,

Which would agone to the Seas,

and brought proud Ward to me.

The first was Lord Clifford,

Earle of Cumberland.

The second was the Lord Mountjoy,

as you shall understand.

The third was brave Essex,

from field would never flée,

Who would have gone unto the Sea,

and brought proud Ward to me.

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London, Printed for Fr. Coles at the sign of the Lamb in the Old-Baily.

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The famous sea-fight between Captain Ward and the Rain-bow. To the tune of Captain Ward.

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1650

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2009-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1).

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B03425

ID [STC]

Wing F383

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ESTC R216020

ID [EEBO-CITATION]

47012441

ID [OCLC]

ocm 47012441

ID [VID]

174409

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— The famous sea-fight between Captain Ward and the Rain-bow. To the tune of Captain Ward.,

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1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill.

Printed for Fr. Coles ...,. London, :: [1650]. (Contains 4 illustrations.) (Date of publication taken from Wing (2nd ed.)) (Reproduction of original in: British Library and University of Glasgow Library.)

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