Ride as they will he kept his way.
And could not gain a mile upon ’em,
Tho’ stout hors’d, they did outrun ’em.
From Preston on the thirteenth day,
Early at morn he march’d away.
No sooner had they quit these towns,
Than Oglethorpe with Wade’s dragoons
Enter’d just at the other end,
To give them chase they did intend;
But being fatigu’d, chose rest a while.