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2.350 R188049 1 Let the Souldiers Rejoyce Let the Soldiers Rejoice Let the Soldiers Rejoice I Sing in the Fame/ Of a pritty young Dame, date from content Pepys 2.350 Rollins (1) VI:301-303; Wing F669[B] 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: 350 THE/ Female SOULDIER:/ OR,/ The Uirgin Uolunteer. THE Female SOULDIER: OR, The Virgin Volunteer. The Female Soldier: or, the Virgin Volunteer. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 192 x 300 cropped left edge, damaged surface cast fleurons 1691 Printed for C. Bates next the Crown-Tavern, in/ West-Smithfield. C. Bates Weinstein

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I Sing in the Fame Of a pritty young Dame, And praise of her Warlike behaviour; With a heart void of fear, She went Volunteer, No Souldier, no Souldier, could ever do braver. JOHN CHANGE, by that Name, To the Marshal she came, Disguised, and said she was willing, To serve their Majesties, On the Land or the Seas; The Marshal then Listed the Youth with a shilling.
Then he Cloth'd her in Red, Put a Sword by her side, With all things a Souldier adorning: Who at night went to Bed With a young brisk Comrade, And rose undiscover'd a Maid in the Morning. So pritty a face. And so comely a Grace, With an Eloquent Tongue so ingenious, Had her new Comrade Known she was a Maid, No doubt he'd a serv'd her as Mars did his Venus.
To Tilbury Fort, She was sent, being too short, For the Guards which in Towns now are Quarter'd: But too young being thought, Was back again brought, Thus all her designs by ill Fortune were thwarted. At the Marshals she lay, Still expecting each day To be Mustred and made a Dragooner: But an unlucky trick, Happen'd just in the nick, A scurvy Misfortune chanc'd to light upon her. One Night her Comrade, When they both were in Bed, Mistrusted what he would not tell her: As she lay asleep, Did close to her creep, And found a she Volunteer was his Bed-fellow. When the Riddle was known, She arose and run home, With such innocent Blushes they'd charm yee: Then what need we fear The French coming here, Since young pritty Women run into the Army. Let the Souldiers now raise, A new Trophy in praise Of a Virgin as brave as a Roman: Why may not each Wench, Encounter the French, Since the bravest of Heroes are conquer'd by Women. Let each jolly Blade, Do then as this Maid, And with Courage go fight for King William: Were all men so stout, We the French soon should rout, Our true English Courage with Terror should fill 'em
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Printed for C. Bates next the Crown-Tavern, in West-Smithfield.