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T35349 1 Tis when the Seas were roaring, &c. UNKNOWN Tis When the Seas Were Roaring, etc. STrike up ye lusty Gallants, / With Music sound of Drum; Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 654 3: 655 A Famous / SEA FIGHT. / BETWEEN / Capt, Ward, and his Majesty's Ship the Rainbow. A Famous SEA-FIGHT, BETWEEN Captain Ward and the Rainbow. A Famous SEA FIGHT, BETWEEN Captain Ward and the Rainbow. ?-?

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STrike up ye lusty Gallants, With Music sound of Drum; For we have espyd a Rover, That to our Seas is come; His Name you know is Captain Ward, Right well it doth appear, There has not been such a Rover, Found out these thousand Years. For he hath sent unto our King, The Sixth of January, Desiring that he might come in, With all his Company;
And if our King will let me come, Till I my Tale have told; I will bestow for thy Ransom, Full thirty Tun of Gold. O nay! O nay! then said our King, O nay! this may not be, To yield to such a vile Rover, Myself cannot agree, He hath deceived the Frenchmen, 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 is what shes always calld, If you would know her Name; Now the brave and gallant Rainbow. She roves along the Sea, Five hundred gallant Seamen, To bear her Company. The Dutchmen and the bold Spaniards, She made them for to fly; Also the bonny brisk Frenchmen, As she met them on the Sea, When as this bold gallant Rainbow, Did come where Ward did lie, Where is the Captain of this Ship, This brave Rainbow did cry. Oh! thats I says the Captain Ward, Theres no Man bids me lie; And if thou art the Kings fair Ship, Thou art welcome to me; Ill tell thee what says the Rainbow, Our King is in great Grief, That thou shouldst lie upon the Sea, And play the arrant Thief. And will not let our Merchant Ships, Pass as they did before; Such Tidings to our King is come, Which grieves his Heart full sore: With that this gallant Rainbow, Did shoot out of her Pride, Full fifty gallant 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, says Captain Ward, Your Sport well pleaseth me; And he that now first giveth oer, Shall yield unto the Sea. I never wrongd an English Ship, But Turks, and King of Spain,; And for the jovial Dutchmen. Which I met on the Main: If I had known who was your King, But one two Years before, I would have savd brave Essexs Life, Whose Death did grieve me sore. Go tell the King of England, Go tell him thus from me, If he reigns 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 Rovers Company, And returned Home again. Our Royal King of England, Our Ships returnd again; [F]or Wards is stout and strong, And never will be taen; 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 the Lord Clifford, Brave Earl of Cumberland; The second was the Lord Mountjoy, As you shall understand: The third was the valiant Essex, From Field would never flee; Which would have gone unto the Seas, And brought proud Ward to me.