With that the gallant Rainbow shot, and shot, and shot in vain,
And left the rover’s company, and returnd home again.
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‘Our royal king of England, your ship’s returnd again,
For Ward’s ship is so strong it never will be tane:’
‘O everlasting!’ says our king, ‘I have lost jewels three,
Which would have gone unto the seas and brought proud Ward to me.
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‘The first was Lord Clifford, Earl of Cumberland;
The second was the Lord Mountjoy, as you shall understand;