The young damsels courage and conquest: or, The close encounter between Country Kate and a lusty soldier of Flanders. Tune of March boys, &c. Licensed according to order. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06767 of text R227560 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing Y100). 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 B06767 Wing Y100 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.39.k.6[27] 99887404 ocm99887404 182113 2240893909

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06767) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182113) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A3:1[27]) The young damsels courage and conquest: or, The close encounter between Country Kate and a lusty soldier of Flanders. Tune of March boys, &c. Licensed according to order. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : music. Prinpet [sic] for P[hilip]. Brooksby, J[onah]. Deacon, J[osiah]. Blare, and J[ohn]. Back., [London] : [between 1688-1692] Publishers' names, date and place of publication from Wing. Verse: "A souldier from Flanders he travell'd os [sic] late ..." Printed in two columns. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The young damsels courage and conquest: or, The close encounter between Country Kate and a lusty soldier of Flanders. Tune of March boys, &c. Licensed anon 1692 1 641 0 0 0 10 0 0 1560.06 F The rate of 1560.06 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 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 Young Damsels Courage and Conquest : OR , The close Encounter between Country KATE and a lusty Soldier of FLANDERS . Tune of March Boys , &c.

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(1) A Souldier from Flanders he Travell'd of late , and here in the City of London did lye , And happen'd to meet with bonny brisk Kate , a Lass with a delicate rouling Eye : She chuckt the Souldier under the Chin , she being youthful brisk and airy , And said if thou wilt my favour win , then come Boy , come Boy , let 's be merry : Come Boy , come Boy , beat upon my Drum Boy , fain wou'd I see how thou can'st Tabor , Do what ye can , honest John , like a Man , and I 'll reward you for your labour . (2) I never could Tabor a Drum , I declare , tho' long I have Marched in Flanders in Spain , A Musket I still on my Shoulders did bear , when ever I follow'd the Warlike-Train : The Damsel immediately thus reply'd , if thou art a Soldier draw out thy Rapier , Thy Courage and Valour with me shall be try'd , Draw then draw I 'll make you caper : Draw Boy , draw Boy , ' teent against the Law Boy for if I do but once come near you : T is my delight , for to sight , though by night , come on , brave Souldier , I 'll not fear you . (3) He drew out his Rapier and to her did run ; as soon as she saw it young Kate got a fall , But yet there alass was no prejudice done , she still for a closer encounter did call : Just when he thought he had gotten the day , her courage & strength did still grow stronger , So that she still show'd him delicate play , till he , till he could strive no longer : Longer , longer , not a Minute longer , thus was he conquer'd by a Beauty , She got the day , as they say , in the fray , and vow'd that she 'd make him know his Duty . (4) She turn'd to the Souldier and gave him a smile , and said was you e're so beaten before , I am not like those that will parly a while , but conquer without any Cannons that roar : At this the Soldier was straight in a rage , resolving his Forces again to rally , That he with young beautiful Kate might ingage , in vain , in vain , it was to dally , Dally , dally , never would he dally , nor would he yield on no condition ; She held him too 't , he did shoot , the dispute held while he 'd spent his Ammunition . (5) Now his Bandileers being empty at last , so that he no longer could stand the Field , He would have been running but she held him fast so that he was forc'd to submit and yield : Though often he fought in the Field of Mars , where Cannons had roard like claps of thunder , At length by a Beautiful Country Lass , he was subdu'd and soon brought under : Under , under , yet it was no wonder , being no more than what is common : Those that have fought , many Enemies stout , at length have been conquer'd by a Woman . FINIS .

Prindet for P. Brooksby , J. Deacon , J. Blare , and J Back .