%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Royal LETTER/ To our Gracious Queen MARY, from his Majesty in/ FLANDERS:/ Who at the Head of Fifty Thousand Men is going to Raise/ The Siege of MONS. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1691 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 09/07/2007 20974

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2.355 R187270 1 Valiant Jockey's Marcht away Valiant Jockey's Marched Away Valiant Jockeys Marched Away TO my Gracious Queen I send/ These Lines, the which I recommend date from content; Relief of Mons Pepys 2.355 Rollins (1) VI:38-40; Wing R2133F 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: 355 The Royal LETTER/ To our Gracious Queen MARY, from his Majesty in/ FLANDERS:/ Who at the Head of Fifty Thousand Men is going to Raise/ The Siege of MONS. The Royal LETTER To our Gracious Queen MARY, from his Majesty in FLANDERS: Who at the Head of Fifty Thousand Men is going to Raise The Siege of MONS. The Royal Letter to Our Gracious Queen Mary, from His Majesty in Flanders: Who at the Head of Fifty Thousand Men is Going to Raise the Siege of Mons. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 200 x 290 uneven inking cast fleurons 1691 Printed for C. Bates, next door to the Crown Ta[vern,]/ near Duck-Laue in West-Smithfield. C. Bates Weinstein

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TO my Gracious Queen I send These Lines, the which I recommend With a Princely Love and Royal care; My long absence still with patience bear: While in Flanders I'll remain, With a right Valiant War-like Train; Which I am resolved now to head, Boys as bold as ever Europe bred: Therefore I'll stay, and clear the way, Shewing all our Enemies fair Play; For though they boast, our Armed Host, Ever did, and still shall rule the Roast.
All the Princes are agreed, To fall upon the French with speed, And resolved are to let them know, That we do not fear a daring Foe: With undaunted Courage, we Will soon retrieve our Liberty; For he shall be hemn'd on e'ry side, Thus we will subdue his haughty Pride: Now we repair to Brussels, where Both the Foot and Horse with Martial Care, Will Randevew, and soon renew, First a double Strength and Courage too.
Fifty thousand Men and more, As good as ever Armour bore, Who will loose their Lives before they'l yeild, These are ready now to take the Field: 'Tis not Lewis that we fear, We'll charge him in the Front and Rear; True undaunted Courage they shall find, Till they flye like Chaff before the Wind: Trumpets shall sound, and Balls rebound, While the loud-mouth'd Cannons roar all round, Courage we'l take, and likewise make The vast Center of the Earth to shake. MONS the French now lies before, But some are laid in Reeking Gore, For the Forces often Sally'd out, And like valiant Noble Hero's fought: Seven hundred they cut down, Of French, which lay before the Town, This does cause their very hearts to ake, Fearing they the Town shall never take: Likewise 'tis clear, it doth appear, That the Garison is void of fear, And doth not doubt, but to hold out, Till I come and give Mounsier the Rout. And their loss will soon enlarge, When we our Cannon to discharge, In the Bowels of their Armed Band. For my Boys we'l fight with heart and hand; Shot as thick as showers of Hail, We'l send them with a Flaming Gale, Thus between my Army and the Towen, We shall brung the Pride of Lewis down: Him I defy, they soon shall flye, Or I'll know a Legal reason why; If this sharp sceen, doth quench his spleen, I'll return to thee, my Royal Queen.
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Printed for C. Bates, next door to the Crown [Tavern] near Duck-Lane in West-Smithfield.