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2.239 R234371 1 The Souldiers Departure The Doubting Virgin The Soldier's Departure NOw the fatal Fight is over,/ Ualiant Monmouth must away; date from content Pepys 2.239 Wing ?M2432 Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 239 Monmouth Routed./ Together, with his Promise and Resolution to Return/ again, a little before he left the Land. Monmouth Routed.Together, with his Promise and Resolution to Return again, a little before he left the Land. Monmouth Routed. Together, with His Promise and Resolution to Return Again, a Little Before He Left the Land. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 198 x 294 cropped top, bottom and left edges, uneven inking vertical rules 1685 Weinstein: content

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N Ow the fatal Fight is over, Valiant Monmouth must away; While his Enemies did follow, his sweet Person to betray. If we had but Ammunition, we had surely won the Field, But we were in a weak condition, and was forc'd at last to yield. Some says Monmouth he was taken in a Field a picking Peese; Some says in a Ditch a sleeping, there were such reports as these; Raised meerly to degrade him, of his Royal Dignity, But let those that did upbraid him, Rush for such like Villany.
Some the more to blast his Glory, as the naked truth I say, Straightway frame another Story, saying in a Cock of Hay He through fear was forc'd to build in, 'till they did his Honour trace; But his famous War-like Gelding escap'd with his most Royal Grace. Some has call'd brave Monmouth Coward but they were his Enemies; When a Souldier's over-power'd, they can this and more devise; But their words I never heeded, tho' they knit their brows, and frown; His stout Valour far exceeded those which strove to run him down.
Now when we were clearly Routed, I ran to a pleasant Grove, Where some of our Men were Scouted, with that Souldier whom we love; Who declar'd to give them Battel, when he could his strength renew, Drums and Canons they should Rattle, for to give his Foes their due. Now we must away to Holland , where we shall be safe I'm sure, And my Souldiers that will follow, they with me shall be secure: They shall surely lack for nothing, while in Holland we remain, And we'll be in better Order, when we do return again. How they Draw and Hang my Soldiers, which doth grieve my heart full sore; All the bloody Books of Martyrs, never shew'd the like before? Nay, they cut them into Quarters, and their Hearts and Bowels burn'd, Likewise boyl'd their Limbs in Cauldrons I at this in tears have mourn'd. Sure the very Turk or Tartar , could not act more Cruelty, Yet like Lambs they took their slaughter, when they were condemn'd to dye:
Tho' it fill'd the world with wonder, what they did intend or mean; Mothers hearts did break in sunder, to behold this bloody Scene. How their Actions does allarm me, to behold their fatal Bane, Well, I'le have another Army, for to Fight my Foes again: Warlike Canons they shall Rattle, like a Hero of Renown, I my self will Front the Battel, for to run the Romans down. I will find a proper Season for to pull down Popery , Since it is no more than Reason, that my proudest Foes shall see: Tho' at present I may may ling[e]r, foes shall see my Armor shine, Nay, and tremble at my Anger when I accomplish my Design. He no sooner this had spoken, but they straightways him secur'd, Christians Hearts was almost broken to behold what he endur'd; Bloody was his Execution, from the hand of Cruelty, 'Twas the Papists Resolution, he should fall most fatally.