Newes from Hollands Leager:
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Hollands Leager is lately up broken,
This for a certaine is spoken.
To the tune of, Canons are roaring .
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Y Ou that desire newes,
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list to my story;
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Some it will make to muse,
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some will be sorry,
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Some will rejoyce thereat,
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others will wonder,
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To see the barke and tree
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parted asunder.
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This of a certaine
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for truth it is spoken,
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That Hollands Leager,
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up lately is broken.
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Such Ensignes were displaid
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to amaze Holland
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The like hath seldome been,
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I thinke in no land.
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From many parts there hath
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gallants resorted;
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Because the fame thereof
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they heard reported:
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Yet some their labour lost,
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for it is spoken,
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That Hollands, etc.
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The flaunting Spaniard ,
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and boone Cavillera
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The bragging Dutchman
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thought cost him deare a:
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Wallouns and Switzer ,
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both Jewes, Turke and Neager
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Scots, Danes and French ,
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have been at Hollands Leager.
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Yet all would not availe,
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for it is spoken,
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That Hollands, etc.
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Though many sought to
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invade the strong Iland,
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And stratagems devised
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by sea and by land,
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Rumors were spred abroad,
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fames Trumpet sounding,
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Their Sconce so firmely stood,
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they fear'd no wounding:
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But yet for all their pompe,
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thus it is spoken,
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That Hollands, etc.
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The great god Jupiter
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did well affect her:
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And Mars the god of warre,
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did so protect her,
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His martiall discipline
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made her so valiant,
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She durst in battell joyne
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with any Gallant:
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Yet though she valour had,
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thus it is spoken,
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That Hollands, etc.
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Belloniaes blustring shot,
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they never feared,
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But bravely face to face,
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the Champions dared:
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She seldome tooke the foyle
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by friend or stranger,
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Unless a backe recoyle
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put her in danger,
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But yet for all their pomp,
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thus it is spoken,
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That Hollands, etc.
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Blow for blow, shot for shot
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still they returned,
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But sliding Cowards
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she ever disdained:
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If any younker
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the Island doe venter,
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Without admittance
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no partie could enter.
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But tho they were so stout
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thus it is spoken,
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That Hollands Leager
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is lately up broken .
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The draw-bridge being
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up taken they durst to,
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Stand to push of pike
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and give a thrust too:
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Those that gave onset
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sometimes got th' worst ont,
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And at their parting
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most dearly have curst ont
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But however it is spoken
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that Hollands Leager
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Up lately is broken .
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The second part. To the same Tune.
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B Ulworkes and batteries
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and other fences
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Duly manteined
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the Iland expences:
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Store of musition,
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and all things at pleasure,
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Fit for this company
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gold and rich treasure
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They had at her command
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yet it is, etc.
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Now since the Leager broke
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and they are excluded
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The chiefe Commander
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by fate is subdued,
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Those that did them assault
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thought it small purchase,
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The Lion scornes to prey
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on a dead carkas.
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This we heare certainly
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by many spoken,
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That Hollands, etc.
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All those that used to
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frequent this border
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Are backe retired for
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there's a new order:
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That none shall thither come
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to worke a violence,
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Great and small, high and low,
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all must keepe silence,
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For it is by many spoken,
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that Hollands, etc.
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Yet younster arme your selves,
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here comes new tidings
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Allthough the Campe be broke,
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for their abidings,
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They have a refuge found,
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that can defend them.
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Drummes, pikes and musketers
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doth there attend them
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Then bravely march along,
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gallants in clusters,
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Arrive at Bewdly,
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where they keep their musters .
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There frontgarded is
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with such strong forces
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Only they left behind
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some certaine Horses,
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Yet for a trifle
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they will not be daunted,
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When once their Colors
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o'th' wall is advanced.
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Feare to march away,
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gallants in clusters,
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To Bewdly heigh, where
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they keep their musters .
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Now if my newes in
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this song my content you,
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Buy it and try it
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and never repent you,
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For your recreation
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in love I have pend it:
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Trusting no creature I
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have here offended,
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With telling of the newes
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which I heard spoken,
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That Hollands Leager
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is lately up broken.
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