The princely scuffle, or, An account of the late famous duel, which happen'd betwixt the Prince of Wales, and the young Duke of Bercy, one of the French King's grand sons This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B09788 of text R224470 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 5KB 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 B09788 Wing P3491A ESTC R224470 ocm 64551600

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 eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The princely scuffle: or, An account of the late famous duel, which happen'd betwixt the Prince of VVales, and the yound Duke of Berry, one of the Fre n/a 1691 1 768 4 0 0 0 0 0 52.08 D The rate of 52.08 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-11 Sampled and proofread 2014-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Princely Scuffle : Or , An Account of the Late Famous Duel , which happen'd betwixt the Prince of Wales , and the Young Duke of Berry , one of the French King's Grand sons . 26. Jan. 1690 / 1

depiction of the fistfight between the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Berry
depiction of the French king

Don't Bank 'em ; Let 'em Fight .

depiction of the English queen

O! the Prince ! Part ' em .

depiction of the Prince of Wales

You French Dog .

depiction of the Duke of Berry

You English Bastard .

ALL you that pass by , I pray you draw nigh , Attend to my Song , without ever a Lye ; There chanc'd t'other day , a most Tragical Fray Between Two Young Princes , as they were at play In a Garden . The One he was bold , being Four Years old , And scorn'd by a Ty●er for to be Controul'd ; Yet tho' he was Young , he could handle his Tongue , And call'd his Welsh-Highness i' th' midst of a Throng , English Bastard . The Other so Wise , did the Dauphin despise , His Countenance shew'd , his Flesh at him did rise ; Quoth he , How I Itch , to have a Sound Twitch At that French Sawcy Son of a Bitch . The Young Dauphine . D●UPHINE . Begar , dost dou come , to beat me at Home ; Nay , if it be so , den have at dy Bum , That none may e're say , of me another day , I dishonour'd my self , in Running away From a Tyler . P. of WALES . French Dog , dost thou think , I ever will shrink ? No , e're I have done , thy French Hide it shall stink : Then do not suppose , I am one of those , That will run away for one Bloody Nose ; No , I Scorn it . Tho' my Rigid Fate , has expos'd me to hate , And am , like an Old Almanack , quite out of date ; Yet still there remains , English Blood in my Veins ; Then hold your French Tongue , or I 'll beat out your Brains , You Young Vrchin . At this Dauphine Hist , and up with his Fist ; But the Prince he drew back , and the Dauphine he mist : And the Prince to repay , his kindness , they say , Knock'd the Young Dauphin down , and there the Rogue lay For an Hour . But being Reviv'd , together they striv'd , And e'er they had done , the late Queen she arriv'd ; Who seeing the Battle , fought on with such mettle , She set up her Notes , and made the Air rattle Like Thunder . Pray part them , she cry'd : The French King reply'd , I cannot tell which has the best on his side : Then part not the Chits ; you Rogues , look to your Hits ; At which , the late Queen , she fell into Fits . And no wonder . For such a sad Maul , there never did fall , Since Iames , for not Fighting , she beat at White-hall ; And so these Young Sparks , did Fight like two Sharks , That on both their Bodies , you might see the Marks A Month after . The French King did say , They shall have fair play ; This is not diversion , I have e'●y day ; With that they did Fight , in Earnest out-right , And the Welsh Prince he Worsted the Young Dauphine quite , That he Cryed . And then the Late Queen , who the Duel had seen , And saw her Son's Nose bleed , so raised her Spleen , That she stept to the Dauphine , who was crying and coughing , Quoth she , You Young Bastard , your Grand-fathers huffing Shant daunt me . Without any delay , she began a new Fray , And flew at Old Lewis , and beat him they say , That h● Roul'd in his Gore , and his Flesh it was sore ; Besides it is said , She in Fury Tore Off his Whiskers . But a great English Peer . who chanc'd to be near , And so this Confusion he Fortun'd to hear , Stept in to make Peace , which they all did Imbrace , And the Queen gave Old Lewis a Plaster for's Face , So they Parted .
FINIS .

Translated from the Orignal , Printed at AMSTERDAM .