Lord Willoughby: being a true relation of a famous and bloody battel fought in Flanders, by the noble and valiant Lord Willoughby, with 1500 English, against 40000 Spaniards, where the English obtain'd a notable victory, to the glory and renown of our nation. To the tune of, Lord Willoughby, &c. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B26219 of text R227074 in the English Short Title CatalogTextual 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. 5 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 B26219 Wing L3058 Interim Tract Supplement Guide EBB65H[59] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[93] ESTC R227074 99887083 ocm99887083 183287 2264219395

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B26219) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183287) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A5:2[78b]) Lord Willoughby: being a true relation of a famous and bloody battel fought in Flanders, by the noble and valiant Lord Willoughby, with 1500 English, against 40000 Spaniards, where the English obtain'd a notable victory, to the glory and renown of our nation. To the tune of, Lord Willoughby, &c. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for A.M. W.O. and T. Thackeray, in Duck-Lane., London: : [1694?] Verse: "The fifteen day of July ..." Date of publication suggested by Wing. Printed on verso of item at A5:2[78]: Cvpids curtesie (Wing C7600 variant?). Item at A5:2[78] imperfect: cropped, affecting imprint. Reproduction of originals in the Harvard University, Houghton Library and the British Library. eng Willoughby of Parham, Francis Willoughby, -- Baron, 1613?-1666 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo Lord Willoughby: : being a true relation of a famous and bloody battel fought in Flanders, by the noble and valiant Lord Willoughby, with 1500 English n/a 1694 1 623 6 0 0 0 2 0 417.34 F The rate of 417.34 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-12 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2010-01 Sampled and proofread 2010-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2010-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Lord WILLOUGHBY :

Being a true Relation of a famous and bloody BATTEL fought in Flanders , by the Noble and Valiant Lord Willoughby , with 1500 English , against 40000 Spaniard , where the English obtain'd a notable Victory , to the Glory and Renown of our Nation .

To the Tune of , Lord Willoughby , &c.

THe fifteenth Day of July , with glistering Spear and Shield , A famous Fight in Flanders , was foughten in the field : The most contagious Officers , was English Captains three ; But the bravest Man in Battel was brave Lord Willoughby . The next was Captain Norris , a valiant Man was he ; The other Captain Turner , that from field would never flee : With fifteen hundred fighting Men , alas , there was no more , They fought with forty thousand then upon the bloody shore . Stand to it noble Pike-men , and look you round about . 〈…〉 you 〈…〉 You Musket and Cavalier Men , do you prove true to me , I 'll be the foremost Man in fight , says brave Lord Willoughby . And then the bloody Enemy they fiercely did assail , And fought it out most valiantly , not doubting to prevail : The wounded men on both sides fell , most piteously to see , Yet nothing could the courage quell of brave Lord Willoughby . For seven hours to all Mens view , this Fight endured sore , Vntil our Men so feeble grew that they could fight no more : And then upon dead Horses full savourly they eat ; And drank the Puddle-water ,

When they had fed so freely , they kneeled on the ground , And praised God devoutly 〈◊〉 the favour they had found : 〈◊〉 bearing up their Colours , the fight they did renew , And turning towards the Spaniards , 〈◊〉 thousand more they slew . The sharp steel pointed Arrows , and Bullets thick did flye , Then did our valiant-Souldiers charge on most furiously : Which made the Spaniards waver , they thought it best to flee ; They fear'd the stout behaviour of brave Lord Willoughby . Then quoth the Spanish General , Come let us march away , I fear we shall be spoyles all , if that we longer stay : For yonder comes Lord Willoughby with courage fierce and fell , He will not give one inch of way for all the Devils in Hell . And then the fearful Enemy was quickly put to flight , Our Men pursu'd couragiously , and rout their Forces quite : But at the last they gave a shout , which ec●hoed through the Sky , God and St. George for England , the Conquerors did cry . This news was brought to England with as the speed might be ; And told unto our gracious Queen of this same Victory : O this is brave , Lord Willoughby my love hath ever won , Of all the Lords of Honour 't is he great deeds hath done . For Souldiers that were maimed and wounded in the fray , The Queen allowed a Pension of eighteen-pence a day ; Besides all cost and charges she quit and set them free ; And this she did all for the sake of brave Lord Willoughby . Then courage noble English Men , and never be dismay'd , If that we be but one to ten , we will not be afraid , To fight with forreign Enemies , and set our Nation free ; And thus I end the bloody bout of brave Lord Willoughby .