An Answer to the French declaration. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B01399 of text R1095 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A3410). 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. 4 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 B01399 11947638 Wing A3410 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.2[62] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[5] ESTC R1095 99882616 ocm99882616 182676 2264203422

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B01399) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182676) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A1:1[63]; A4:2[5]) An Answer to the French declaration. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for the author, London, : 1665/6. Verse: "The Heavens look big with wonder, and informe ..." Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Anglo-Dutch War, 1664-1667 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Political poetry, English -- Early works to 1800. eebo An Answer to the French declaration. anon 1665 1 564 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2010-12 Sampled and proofread 2010-12 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2011-06 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
AN ANSWER To the French DECLARATION . THE Heavens look big with wonder , and informe Our Expectations of some present Storm . French , Dutch and Dane too , all at once ? why then 'T is time to show that We are English Men. They say , at Foot-ball Three to one is odds ; But this is nothing , for the Cause is Gods . Have at 'em all , we care not where we come , Since Gracious Heaven is reconcil'd at Home , Courage brave BRITTANS then , We do no more But fight with those whom We have beat before . And now methinks , much better may We , since We fight for such an All accomplisht Prince , Who the World's Conquest is as fair to get As Alexander ( like himself ) the Great . Talk not of Ten to One , pittiful story , Alas the odds does but encrease the Glory : Besides the English from their Ancestrie Derive themselves the heirs of Victory Where should the Sons of Honour , if they die , But in the Field , the bed of Honour lie ? The World will know , when time shall serve , we dare Come out , and meet that Prince of Pitch and Tarre ; Bring your Wind-selling Laplanders too , do Sure We shall deal with ye , and board ye too ; And you will tell us , when this comes to pass Your Bergen bu's'ness no such bargain was . Danes ? We don't fear ye ; come , alass ye know Our Women beat ye once , and so may now . Nor value we that Kingdom of Kick shawes , We come not to receive , but give them Lawes ; We shall provide 'em such a Frigaze Of Legs and Armes they 'l scarce be glad to see . They now must understand with whom they cope , A mighty Prince , and not a Myter'd Pope ; One that will otherwise the matter handle , With Glittering Sword , and not Bell , Book and Candle : One that shall Anathematize ye worse , Not to pronounce but execute your Curse : He 'l bring ye Jeggerie home to your door : Instead of Bulls you 'l hear his Canons roar ; And I make bold to tell ye in the close Although no Popes , we 'l make ye kiss our Toes . An English Monarch ( Mounsieur ) no new thing , Has sent his Son to fetch him a French King : If ye suspect , or scruple our report , Enquire at Poictiers , Cressie , Agin-Court , That place never to be forgotten , where The Prisoners more then we that took'em were : The French shall know it too , as we advance , 'T is We , not they , fight for the King of France . Ye boast of Gold and Silver , and such stuffe , We 'l bring ye Pockets for it sure enough . And if we meet ye on the foaming source VVe 'l have a word or too of deep Discourse . A fig for France or any that accords VVith those Low-Country Leather-Apern Lords .

LONDON , Printed for the Author , 1665/6.