THE
Female SOULDIER:
OR,
The Virgin Volunteer.
To the Tune of, Let the Souldiers Rejoyce. Licensed according to Order.
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I Sing in the Fame
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Of a pritty young Dame,
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And praise of her Warlike behaviour;
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With a heart void of fear,
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She went Volunteer,
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No Souldier, no Souldier, could ever do braver.
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JOHN CHANGE, by that Name,
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To the Marshal she came,
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Disguised, and said she was willing,
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To serve their Majesties,
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On the Land or the Seas;
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The Marshal then Listed the Youth with a shilling.
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Then he Cloth'd her in Red,
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Put a Sword by her side,
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With all things a Souldier adorning:
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Who at night went to Bed
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With a young brisk Comrade,
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And rose undiscover'd a Maid in the Morning.
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So pritty a face.
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And so comely a Grace,
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With an Eloquent Tongue so ingenious,
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Had her new Comrade
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Known she was a Maid,
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No doubt he'd a serv'd her as Mars did his Venus.
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To Tilbury Fort,
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She was sent, being too short,
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For the Guards which in Towns now are Quarter'd:
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But too young being thought,
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Was back again brought,
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Thus all her designs by ill Fortune were thwarted.
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At the Marshals she lay,
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Still expecting each day
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To be Mustred and made a Dragooner:
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But an unlucky trick,
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Happen'd just in the nick,
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A scurvy Misfortune chanc'd to light upon her.
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One Night her Comrade,
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When they both were in Bed,
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Mistrusted what he would not tell her:
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As she lay asleep,
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Did close to her creep,
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And found a she Volunteer was his Bed-fellow.
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When the Riddle was known,
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She arose and run home,
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With such innocent Blushes they'd charm yee:
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Then what need we fear
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The French coming here,
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Since young pritty Women run into the Army.
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Let the Souldiers now raise,
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A new Trophy in praise
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Of a Virgin as brave as a Roman:
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Why may not each Wench,
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Encounter the French,
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Since the bravest of Heroes are conquer'd by Women.
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Let each jolly Blade,
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Do then as this Maid,
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And with Courage go fight for King William:
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Were all men so stout,
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We the French soon should rout,
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Our true English Courage with Terror should fill 'em
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FINIS.
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