Newes from Flaunders A new ballad of the great ouerthrow that the valliant Captaine Graue Maurice, Sir Frances Veere, and other of the Queene of Englands friends: gaue to the Archduke, and his army of Spaniards, vpon Sunday being the 22 of Iune last past, 1600. To the tune of lusty gallant.

Newes from Flaunders . A new Ballad of the great ouerthrow that the valliant Captaine Graue Maurice , Sir Frances Veere , and other of the Queene of Englands friends : gaue to the Archduke , and his Army of Spaniards , vpon Sunday being the 22 of Iune last past , 1600. To the tune of lusty Gallant .

depiction of battle scene YOu that be desirous , and therein take delight : To h●are of bloudie battailes , and worthy warlike fight , To Flaunders bend your ears a while and you shall truely know , How valliantly our Noble friends , their foes did ouerthrow . The Archduke of Austria , that bloudy Spanish Lord : Like Iudas hath conuerted , his booke into a sword . To plant by cursed Popery , in Flaunders now againe : to bring the Quéen of Englands friends in seruitude to Spaine . But Noble Prince , Graue Maurice , his purpose to preuent : Hath entred famous Flaunders , to warlike battle bent : With fiftéene thousand horse and foote , prepared well to fight : At Phillipeena landed first , the twelfe of Iune by night . From thence a long to Oldenbirdge , they marched on a maine : And cut of all the best reliefe , quite from the hoast of Spaine . All the sconces and the Fortes , that by the way they found , Belonging to the Spanish power , they raced to the ground . And so to Newport marched , with thundring lowde allarmes : And there besiegde it brauely , by force of warlike armes . The Cannons plaide vp to the walles the muskets shot amaine : As though that Mars himselfe were come to fight or else be slaine . By this he heard the Archduke , was comming for to raise His siedge , with full ten thousand , resting neither night nor dayes . Whereat the States Generall , did choose a Regiment : Of nimble Scotch and hardy Dutch , their comming to preuent . To Count Ernestus of Nassaw committed them in charge : About foure miles from Newport , to fortifie a Bridge . Who failed much therein , because the Duke had past the same : Before Ernestus Regiments , all softly thether came . The Scotch-men were all cut off , and put to slaughter quite : But yet the Dutchmen hapned , to saue themselues by flight . The which imboldned so the foe that he went forward still : Without all daunger of assault , or fearing any ill . Vpon the foure and twenty day , they planted on a plaine : Eight great Canons soundly chargde a battle to maintaine . Whereat the Princely Generall , the siedge did soone forsake : And marcht to méete the Archduke , the better ground to take . Sir Frances Véere directed him , his squadrons to dispose : How best for his aduantage , should set vpon his foes . Nine Noble English Gentlemen , the first encounter gaue : With as much honour and renowne , as any Prince might haue . But yet before this battell strong , betwixt them were begun : they stroue at least ful two houres long for weather , winde and sunne . At last Duke Alberts warlike drums did thunder in the skies : whereat Prince Maurice stird himself and thus couragious cryes . For Flaunders , and for England , braue gallants must we fight : In his defence and quarrell , that is the God of might . To armes I say then gallant lads , let nothing vs dismay : Against professed foes we fight , and hope to win the day . Which wordes did so imbolden , them of the common sort ▪ That euery one esteemde , the battle for a sport . Where though they saw an hundred slaine by one great Cannon shot : Yet none of them in feare thereof , from thence would mooue a foote . Full foure long houres continued , this blacke and dreadfull fight : That both sides well maintained , with courage and great might . The Cannons made such lanes of men that soldiours wetshood stood : As they discharg'd their Musket shot , in pooles of purple blood . The sunne with smoke was darkned , the element likewise : That like a dismall cole blacke night , appeared all the skies . Like mountaines dead men lay on heapes most gréeuous to beholde : By numbers great and infinite , past reason to be tolde . At last the fearfull enemy , from field began to flye : Whereat our English Captaines , saint George saint George did cry , The battle 's won , the day is ours , take courage by this chance : And in the honour of this day , our English Crosse aduance . Then foure miles they pursued , the Spaniards in their flight : still slaughtering them by thousands , and so returnde by night . To Newport backe with warlike ioy the siedge for to renew : And driue the Spaniards from the towne with balles of fiery hew . In this same dreadfull battle , the Spanish Duke had slaine : Aboue fiue thousand at the least , most heauy newes for Spaine . One thousand more they prisoners took withall three Spanish Lords : Which were by force compeld to yéeld them prisoners to our swordes . The Duke himselfe as chaunced , was hurt with Musket shot : And in such sort as hardly he , aliue to Brussels got . His Cannons they were taken all , his Treasure and his Plate : Which be good prises , and estéemde , well of the Flemish state . A hundred fiftye Ensignes , were taken on that day , All which may be sufficient the Spaniards to dismay . And neuer more haue so bould harts , in warre to lift their handes : Against our noble English friendes , now in the Netherlandes . Of English , Scots and Dutchmen , we had some store yslaine , But few they were in number to them that fought for Spaine Few chosen captaines we had hurt , but braue Lord Graye in fight And bould sir Frances of Deueere , that most renowned knight . Who had bene slaine or smoothered amongst the mained men , Had not sir Robert Drewrie most brauely playd the man , Who from the thickest of the fight bore him from thence away A nobler deed then this was not perform'd of all that daye . Thus haue you hearde the seruice of these our English friendes , That stil with losse of life and limmes the Flemish state defends . God banish thence idolatrie , that English men may say : That stil we haue in spight of Spaine some frendes beyond the sea . Finis .