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4.202 R188040 1 Captain Ward Twas When the Seas Were Roaring Captain Ward STrike up you lusty Gallands,/ with Musick and sound of Drum, Pepys 4.202 Wing F383[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. 4: 202 A Famous Sea-Fight between Captain Ward and the/ RAINBOW. A Famous Sea-Fight between Captain Ward and the RAINBOW. A Famous Sea Fight Between Captain Ward and the Rainbow. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 190 x 298 cropped top edge, creased and damaged surface cast fleurons 1684-1686 Printed for J. Clark, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger. J. Clark, W. Thackeray, T. Passinger Blagden

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STrike up you lusty Gallants, with Musick and sound of Drum, For we have descryed a Rower, upon the Sea is come, His name is Captain Ward, right well it doth appear, There has not been such a Rower, found out this thousand year. For he hath sent unto the 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 says our King, O nay this may not be, To yield to such a Rower myself will not agree. He hath deceiv'd the French-man, likewise the King of Spain,
And how can he be true to me, that has been false to twain. With that our King provided, a Ship of worthy fame, Rainbow is she called, if you would know her Name. Now the gallant Rainbow, she Rows upon the Sea, Five hundred gallant Seamen, to bear her company. The Dutch-man and the Spaniard she made them for to flye, Also the bonny French man, as she met them on the Sea. When as th[i]s gallant Rainbow, did come where Ward did lye, Where is the Captain of this Ship? this gallant Rainbow did cry, O that am I says 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 sa[y]s Rainbow, our King is in great grief, That thou sh[o]uldst lye up[o]n the Sea, and play the arrant thief. And will not let our Merchants Ships, pa[s]s as they did before, Such tydings to our King is come, which grieves his heart full sore. With that this gallant Rainbow, she shot out of her pri[d]e, Full fifty gallant brass pieces, charged on every side. Altho[u]gh these gallant Shooters, prevaile[d] not a pin, Though they were br[a]ss on the out side yet Ward was was steel w[ith]in Shoot on, shoot on, says Captain Ward, your sport we[l]l pleaseth me, And he that first gives over, shall yield unto the Sea. I never wrong'd an English ship, but Turk and King of Spain, For and the jovial Dutch-man, as I met on the Main. If I had known your King, but one two years before,
I would have sav'd brave Essex life, whose death did grieve me sore, Go tell the King of England, go tell him thus from me, If he reign King of all the Land, I will Reign King at Sea. With that the gallant Rainbow shot, and shot and shot in vain And left the Rowers Company, and return'd home again. Our Royal King of England, your ship's return'd again, For Wards ship is so strong, it never will be tane. O everlasting says our King, I have lost Jewels three, Which would have gone unto the seas, and brought proud Ward to me. The first was Lord Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, The second was the Lord Mountjoy, as you shall understand. The third was brave Essex, from field would never flee, Which would a gone unto the Seas, and brought proud Ward to me.
Printed for J. Clark, W. Thackeray, and T. Passinger.