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T189042 HEarken and take head, I will tell you a thing, / How that the Whigs souldiers all did conveen; When they came to the Battell of Bodwell. Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 1 The battell of Bodwell=bridge, / OR, The KINGS CAVILEERS TRIVMPH. The battle of Bodwell bridge, OR, The KING'S Cavalier's TRIUMPH. ?-?

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HEarken and take head, I will tell you a thing, How that the Whigs souldiers all did conveen; From Irwin to Air, to Glasgow they came, And marched like men in good order; They marched throw Glasgow with pipe & with drum The gallant brave Souldiers they keeped their ground Thinking the Kings Cavileers for to Gainstand, When they came to the Battell of Bodwell. They marched by day, so did they by night, And their Master Welsh, he led them full right, Of the Bodwell-Bridge they got a full sight, And planted their tents on the border. On Sunday at morne when Phebus did rise, The Whigs thought the Cavileers for to surprise, But ere they wist well they wakned them thrice, When they came to the Battell of Bodwell. That false Rebell Welsh, a Chiftan not good, Where into his cause there was spilt miekle bloud, But yet the Kings Caveleers lited their weed, When they came to the Battell of Bodwell. They came to the Bridge without a gainstand, Our noble Kings-Reed Coats lay ready at hand; Their false Chiftan left them to flee or to stand, When they came to the Battell of Bodwell. There was the Duke-Monmoth and Generall-Deyell, With Canons and Muskets the Whigs for to fell, The silly poor Whigs got many a knell, When they came to the Battell of Bodwell. The Second Part, To the same Tune. To the Bodwell Bridge, these Conventicles yed, Our noble Kings Caveleers came with good speed, They hew'd down the Whigs-men, and spilt miekle bloud, At the place of the Battell of Bodwell. And when the Whigs Cannons began for to style, They thought the brim battell to win by a wyle, But ere they wist well, they got a beguile, At the place of the Battell of Bodwell. Our noble good Chiftan brave Generall Deyell, Commanded his men on their faces to fall. The Reed-Coats escaped the Whigs Cannonball, At the place of the Battell of Bodwell. The stout English Caveleers of great renown, They styled their Cannons the Whigs to ding down, The sillie poor Whigs got many a wound, When they came to the Battell of Bodwell. Their was not a man slain on our side at all, But only two men with the Whigs Cannonball, And for these two men two thousand did fall, At the place of the Battell of Bodwell. The good Earle of Ligthgow, and brave Earle of Marr Themselves & their Regements like brave men of warr
They dang down the Whigs-men & gave them a char From the place of the Battell of Bodwell. The good Earle of Athol and gallant Montrose, They pull'd the Whigs-Piriweegs over their nose, Their Captains and Chiftans did sleep in their hose, When they came to the Battell of Bodwell. The good Captan Clavers, with his good Draguns, He scattered the Whigs through the south Countrey bounds, He gave them many sore deadly wounds, When they came to the Battell of Bodwell. And when the Whigs sojors began for to flee, The good Captain Clavers after them would be, And no man with him but his own Companie; When they ran from the Battell of Bodwell. But the good Duke Monmoth would not let them gang, For fear that the Whigs had done them much wrong, The Whigs they were scattered through all the land, When they ran from the Battell of Bodwell. The good Earle of Marischall both valiant & keen He gathered his Regement at New Aberdeen, But ere he wist well the fighting was done, At the place of the Battell of Bodwell, The good Earle of Aboyne, without all delay, He gathered his Regements and so went away, With all his brave Trowpers in Battell array, For to fight at the Battell of Bodwell. A gallant Horss-Randevouze their did conveen, Of Nobles and Gentles at New-Aberdeen; But ere they wist well the fighting was done, At the place of the Battell of Bodwell. The stout Earle of Erroll of good great renown, He drew up his Regement at Aberdeen's Town But ere they wist well the fighting was done, At the place of the Battell of Bodwell. The good Laird of Grant, with his brave men of wear Like gallant brave Trowpers well drest in their gear They went to the Whigs without any fear, For to fight at the Battell of Bodwell. They marched throw Brichen with loud trumpet sound Like gallant brave Troupers they keeped their ground But ere they wist well the fighting was done, At the place of the Battell of Bodwell. Both he and Lord Duffus came in by Whyte-stane, Lord Duffus had footmen both valiant and keen; But ere they wist well the fighting was done, At the place of the Battell of Bodwell. Of all these good Chiftans I'l now make an end, Hoping all good Christians not to offend, I wish never such fighting be seen in this land, As was the brim Battell of Bodwell.
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