‘Shoot on, shoot on,’ says Captain Ward, ‘your sport well pleaseth me,
And he that first gives over shall yield unto the sea.
9
‘I never wrongd an English ship, but Turk and King of Spain,
For and the jovial Dutch-man as I met on the main.
If I had known your king but one two years before,
I would have savd brave Essex life, whose death did grieve me sore.
10
‘Go tell the King of England, go tell him thus from me,
If he reign king of all the land, I will reign king at sea.’