The oracles for war: or, Great Britain admonish'd to maintain our ancient rights by dint of sword To a new play-house tune. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A53389 of text R218238 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing O361A). 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. 3 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 2018 A53389 Wing O361A ESTC R218238 99829849 99829849 34295 2240861301

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A53389) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 34295) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1921:2) The oracles for war: or, Great Britain admonish'd to maintain our ancient rights by dint of sword To a new play-house tune. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (music) Printed for S. Deacon, at the Angel in Gilt-spur-street, [London] : [1690?] In verse. Place and conjectured date of publication from Wing. First line of verse: To arms, to arms, to arms: your ensigns now display: now, now, now,. Imperfect; item is heavily stained affecting legibility. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng War -- Early works to 1800. Ballads -- Early works to 1800. eebo The oracles for war: or, Great Britain admonish'd to maintain our ancient rights by dint of sword. To a new play-house tune. [no entry] 1690 1 402 0 0 0 70 0 0 17412.94 F The rate of 17412.94 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-04 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-09 Sampled and proofread 2008-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Oracles for War : OR , Great Britain admonish'd to maintain our ancient Rights by dint of Sword . To a New Play-House Tune . TO Arms , to Arms , to Arms , to Arms ; Your Ensigns now display : Now , now , now , now , now , now , now , Set the Battle in Array : The Oracle for War declares , for War declares ; Success depends , Success depends upon your Hearts and Spears .

The Oracle for War declares , &c.

II. Britains strike home , Revenge , revenge your Country's Wrongs ; Fight , fight , and record , Fight , fight , and record your selves in Druids Songs ; Fight , fight , and record , Fight , fight , and record your selves in Druids Songs . III. Enrag'd , enrag'd , enrag'd , enrag'd , your Showers of Ball let fly ; Come , come , come , come , come , come , come , let us win the day , or dye : The Honour of the Field we have , the Field we have , With loud Huzza's , with loud Huzza's , Press on you bold and brave , the Honour of the Field . IV. Britains maintain your Rights , your Rights , by conquering Blows ; Down , down with the Pride , Down , down with the Pride of your late vanquish'd Foes ; Down , down with the Pride , Down , down with the Pride of your late vanquish'd Foes . V. Let 's rouze , let 's rouze , le ts rouze , le ts rouze the Brittish Lion bold ; See how , how , how , how , how , how , his Heroick Eyes are roll'd ; While Silver Trumpets founds a Charge , Charge front and rear , Break thro' their Ranks , break thro' their Ranks ; And make 'em fly for fear , whilst Silver Trumpets sounds . VI. Let them be drove Before , before your Conquering Arms , And cause them to dread , And cause them to dread Great Britain's loud Alarms , And cause them to dread , And cause them to dread , Great Britain's loud ALARMS . FINIS .

Printed for S. Deacon , at the Angel in Gilt-spur-street .