Britaines honour In the two valiant Welchmen, who fought against fifteene thousand Scots, at their now comming to England passing over Tyne; wherof one was kill'd manfully fighting against his foe, and the other being taken prisoner, is now (upon relaxation) come to Yorke to his Majestie. The tune is, How now Mars, &c. M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656? This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A08945 of text R35788 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 19223). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A08945 STC 19223 ESTC R35788 99835851 99835851 77 2240882731

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A08945) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 77) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 855:11) Britaines honour In the two valiant Welchmen, who fought against fifteene thousand Scots, at their now comming to England passing over Tyne; wherof one was kill'd manfully fighting against his foe, and the other being taken prisoner, is now (upon relaxation) come to Yorke to his Majestie. The tune is, How now Mars, &c. M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656? 1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. Printed by E. G[riffin] and are to be sold [by T. Lambert] at the Horse-Shooe in Smith-field, London : [1640] Signed: M. P., i.e. Martin Parker. Publisher's name, bookseller's name and publication date from STC. A ballad. In 2 parts. Describes the events of the siege of Newcastle by the Scots during the Civil Wars. Imperfect as filmed; the copy on Wing microfilm set, reel 1586, lacks the 2nd part. Identified as Wing B4811 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700". Reproductions of the original in the Bodleian Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Poetry. A08945 R35788 (STC 19223). civilwar no Britaines honour. In the two valiant Welchmen, who fought against fifteene thousand Scots, at their now comming to England passing over Tyne M. P 1640 2 842 4 0 0 0 0 0 48 D The rate of 48 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2002-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-12 Sampled and proofread 2002-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Britaines Honour . In the two Valiant Welchmen , who fought against fiftenne thousand Scots , at their now comming to England passing over Tyne ; whereof one was kill'd manfully fighting against his foes , and the other being taken Prisoner , is now upon relaxations come to Yorke to his Majestie .

The tune is , How now Mars &c.

YOu noble Brittaines bold and hardy , That iustly are deriv'd from Brute , Who were in battell neere found t●rdy , But still will fight for your repute ; 'gainst any hee , What e'r a' be , Now for your credit list to me , Two Welchmens valour you shall see . These two undaunted Troian worthies , ( Who prized honour more then life , ) With Royall Charles , who in the North is , To salve ( with care ) the ulcerous strife ; Which frantick sots . With conscious spots , Bring on their soules ; these two hot shots , Withstood full fifteene thousand Scots . The manner how shall be related . That all who are King Charles his friends May be with courage animated , Unto such honourable ends ; These cavaliers , Both Musquetiers , Could never be possest with feares , Though the Scots Army nigh appeares . Within their workes neere Tyne intrench'd Some of our Soveraignes forces lay ; When the Scots Army came , they flinched , And on good cause retyr'd away ; Yet blame them not , For why the Scot , Was five to one , and came so hot , Nothing by staying could be got . Yet these two Martialists so famous , One to another thus did say ; Report hereafter shall not shame us , Let Welchmen scorne to runne away ; Now say our King ▪ Let 's doe a th●● . Whereof the world shall loudly ring Unto the grace of our off-spring . The vaunting Scot shall know what valour , Doth in a Britains brest reside : They shall not bring us any dolour ; But first wee 'll tame some of their pride . What though we dy , Both thee and I ? Yet this we know assuredly , In life and death ther 's victory .
The second part , to the same tune .
With this unbounded resolution , These branches of Cadwalader ; To put their wills in execution , Out of their trenches would not stir , But all night lay , And would not stray , Out of the worke , and o th' next day , The Scots past o'r in Battell aray . The hardy Welchmen that had vowed , Like Jonathan unto his David ; Unto the Scots themselves they showed . And so couragiously behaved Themselves that they Would ne'r give way , But in despite o th' foe would stay , For nothing could their minds dismay . Even in the Iawes of death and danger Where fifteene thousand was to two , They still stood to 't and ( which is stranger ) More then themselves they did subdue Courage they cry'd ; Le ts still abide , Let Brittaines fame be dignifi'd , When two the Scottish hoasts defi'de . At length ( when he two Scots had killed ) One of them brauely lost his life , His strength and courage few excelled ; Yet all must yéeld toth ' fatall knife . The other hee , Having slaine thrée , Did Prisoner yéeld himselfe to be , But now againe he is set frée .
This is the story of these victors , Who as they sprung o th' Troians race , So they did shew like , two young Hectors ; Unto their enemies disgrace ; Hereafter may , Times children say , Two valiant Welchmen did hold play , With fifteene thousand Scots that day . His Maiesty in Princely manner , To give true vertue its reward ; The man surviving more to honour , Hath in particular regard . Thus valiant deeds , Reward succeeds , And from that branch , which valour breeds , All honourable fruit proceeds . Now some may say ( I doe confesse it ) That all such desperate attempts Spring only from foole hardinesse ▪ yet Who ever this rare deed exempts , From valour true , ( if him I knew ) I would tell him ( and 't were but due ) Such men our Soveraigne hath too few . For surely t is a rare example , Who now will feare to fight with ten , When these two lads ( with courage ample ) Opposed fifteene thousand men , Then heigh for Wales , Scots strike your Sayles , For all your proiects nought prevailes , True Brittains scorne to turne their tayles . M. P. FINIS .

London Printed by E. G. and are to be sold at the Horse-Shooe in Smith-field .