KING JAMES'S LETTER
TO THE
FRENCH KING
AN
EXCELLENT NEW SONG
Tune of, Let Mary live long.
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KInd Lewis, my Friend,
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Since Things goes no better,
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Here is a kind Letter,
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Which to you I send,
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to lay down your Arms:
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For my conquering Son,
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Will quite over-run
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your Kingdoms, I fear,
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He'll bring a vast Army,
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He'll bring a vast Army,
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to conquer you here.
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Since Fortune doth frown,
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And sends none but Crosses,
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How great are your Losses;
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My Kingdoms and Crown
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you'll never regain,
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Too late here I know:
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For a powerful Foe
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will shortly arrive:
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Stout Boys of broad Brittain,
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Stout Boys of broad Brittain,
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fears no Man alive.
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Still ever for Peace,
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Lest sad Desolation
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Should fall in your Nation,
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Your Foes they increase
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at Home and Abroad:
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For Diffusion of Blood,
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Makes my Eyes like a Flood,
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through Rivers of Tears,
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The Crys of the People,
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The Crys of the People,
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sore pierceth mine Ears.
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Our Coll'nels are kill'd,
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And valiant Commanders,
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By fighting in Flanders,
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All Nations are fill'd
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with the Rumours of Wars;
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Which troubles me sore,
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Let us freely give o're,
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since Fighting's in vain:
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I long to see Europe,
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I long to see Europe
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to flourish again.
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I cannot but own,
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And still I will ever,
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You've done your endeavour
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To ransome my Throne,
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by powerful Arms;
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You've done what you can
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For an unfortunat Man,
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I ever have been:
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Those that fight against me,
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Those that fight against me,
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doth Victory win.
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Since the Fates are decreed,
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That my Son and Daughter,
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Will ever hereafter
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Still flourish indeed,
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which will satisfy me:
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One Branch They will give,
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By the which I may live,
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I'll freely comply,
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That I am not for Fighting,
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That I am not for Fighting,
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no, no, no, not I.
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Now here lies the Case,
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The most I desire,
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Is hence to retire
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To some Holy Place,
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to spend my last Days:
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So Lewis, my Friend,
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Let the Wars have an end,
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and lay your Arms down:
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I'm wearied of seeking,
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I'm wearied of seeking,
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the Scepter and Crown.
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