Courage Crowned with Conquest;
OR,
A brief Relation, how that Valiant Knight, and Heroick Champion Sir Eglamore, bravely
fought with, and manfully slew, a terrible, huge great Monstrous Dragon.
To a Pleasant new Tune.
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SIr Eglamore that valiant Knight
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with his fa, la, lancastre down dilie,
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He fetcht his sword and he went to fight;
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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As he went over hill and dale
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All cloathed in his Coat of Male.
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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A huge great Dragon leapt out of his Den
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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Which had killed the Lord knows how ma-ny men
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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But when he saw Sir Eglamore
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Good lack had you seen how this Dragon did roare
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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This Dragon he had a plaguy hide
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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Which could both sword and spear abide
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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He could not enter with hacks and cuts
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Which vext the Knight to the very hearts blood and guts,
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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All the Trees in the Wood did shake
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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Stars did tremble, and men did quake,
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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But had you seen how the birds lay peeping
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Twould have made a mans heart to fall a weeping
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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The second Part. To the same Tune.
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But it was too late to fear
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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For now it was come to fight Dog, fight Bare
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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And as a yawning he did fall
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He thrust his Sword in hilt and all,
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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But now as the Knight in choler did burn
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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He owed the Dragon a shrewd good turn
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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In at his mouth his sword he bent,
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The hilt appeared at his fundament,
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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Then the Dragon like a coward began to fly
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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Unto his Den that was hard by
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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And there he laid him down and roard
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The Knight was vexed for his Sword
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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The Sword that was a right good Blade,
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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As ever Turk or Spaniard made.
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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I for my part do forsake it
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And he that will fetch it, let him take it
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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When all this was done, to the Ale-house he went
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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And by and by his two pence he spent
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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For he was so hot with tugging with the Dragon
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That nothing would quench him but a whole Flaggon.
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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Now God preserve our King and Queen,
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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And eke in London may be seen,
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with his fa la lancastre, etc.
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As many Knights, and as many more,
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And all so good as Sir Eglamore.
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with his fa la, lancastre down dilly.
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