The third was brave Essex, from field would never flee;
Which would a gone unto the seas and brought proud Ward to me.’
The Famous Sea-Fight between Captain Ward and the Rainbow. To the tune of Captain Ward, etc. Licensed and entered.
London, Printed by and for W. Onley, and are to be sold by the Booksellers of Pye-corner and London-bridge. Dated at the British Museum 1680 at the earliest.
113. Everlasting shame, in the Scottish stall-copies.
A collation of Roxburghe, III, 56, shows only variations too trivial to note.
288
THE YOUNG EARL OF ESSEX’S VICTORY OVER THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY
A. ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Champion, or, Great Britain’s Glory,’ etc. a. Douce Ballads, III, fol. 80 b. b. Roxburghe, III, 416, in Ebsworth’s Roxburghe Ballads, VI, 405.