To Henrye Hunt the King then sayd, "In lieu of what was from thee taen A noble a daye nowe thou shalt have,

Sir Andrewe's jewels and his chayne: And Horsley thou shalt bee a knight,

And lands and livings shalt have store; Howard shall bee Erle Surrye hight,

As Howards erst have beene before.

"Now Peter Simon, thou art old—

I will maintain thee and thy sonne;
And the men shall have five hundred markes
For the good service they have done."
Then in came the queene with ladyes faire
To see Sir Andrewe Barton, knight;
They weend that hee was brought on shore,
And thought to see a gallant sight.

But when they sawe his deadlye face,
And eyes soe hollow in his head,

"I wold give," quoth the king, "a thousand markes
If hee were alive as hee is dead.

Yett for the manfull part hee playd,

Which fought soe well with heart and hand, His men shall have twelve pence a daye

Till they come to my brother-king's high land.”

ANONYMOUS.

A FAMOUS SEA-FIGHT BETWEEN CAPTAIN WARD AND THE RAINBOW.

1

STRIKE up, you lusty gallants,

With musick and sound of drum;

For we have descryed a Rover
Upon the Sea is come:
His name is Captain Ward;

Right well it doth appear

There has not been such Rover

Found out these thousand year.

1 Appears to have been a native of Kent, and was rather a scourge to shipping in home waters from about 1604 to 1608. In 1609 he and Dansekar, with whom he joined partnership towards the end of his depredations, were written of as "the late famous pirates." It seems

For he hath sent unto our King,2

The sixth of January,

Desiring that he might come in
With all his company.

"And if your King will let me come,
Till I my tale have told,

I will bestow for my ransòme

Full thirty tons of gold."

"Oh, nay! oh, nay!" then said our King;
"Oh, nay, this must not be!

To yield to such a Rover

Myself will not agree.

He hath deceived the French man,
Likewise the King of Spain :

And how can he be true to me,
That hath been false to twain?"

With that our King provided
A ship of worthy fame;
Rainbow she was called,

If you would know her name.
Now that gallant Rainbow

She roves upon the Sea;
Five hundred gallant Seamen
Do bear her company.

The Dutch man and the Spaniard,
She made them for to flee;
Also the bonny French man,

As she met him on the Sea.
When as this gallant Rainbow

Did come where Ward did lye,

"Where is the Captain of this Ship?"
Her master he did cry.

that they were not caught, and where they cleared off to is unknown; but it was said in latter years that Ward was living at Algiers, in the style of a petty prince, in which condition he was kept by a fleet of pirate craft that infested the Mediterranean and the Barbary shore, and enabled him to pay the heavy tax put on him by the native ruler for allowing him to carry on his piracy from there. It will be seen that this is borne out by the next ballad. 2 James I, Sully's "wisest fool in Christendom." He created the title of baronet, and degraded the crown of England by selling titles of nobility; a timid man who was scarcely a coward, and should never have been more than a fox-hunting squire.

"Oh, that am I! says Captain Ward:
"There's no man bids me lye;

And if thou art the King's fair Ship,
Thou'rt welcome unto me!

"I tell thee what," says Rainbow,
"Our King is in great grief,

That thou shouldst lyé here on the Sea
And play the arrant Thief;

"And will not let our merchants' Ships
Pass as they did before:
Such tydings to our King is come
As grieves his heart full sore.
With that this gallant Rainbow
She shot, out of her pride,
Full fifty gallant brass piecès,
Charged on every side.

And yet those gallant shooters
Prevailed not a pin;

Though they were brass on the outside,
Brave Ward was steel within.

"Shoot on, shoot on!" cries Captain Ward— "Your sport well pleaseth me ;

And he that first gives over
Shall yield unto the Sea.

"I never wrong'd an English Ship,-
But Turk and King of Spain,
And the jovial Dutch man,
As I met him on the Main.
If I had known your King
But one, two years before,

I would have sav'd brave Essex' life-
Whose death did grieve me sore.

"Go, tell the King of England—
Go, tell him this from me,
If he reign King o' all the Land,
I will reign King at Sea!
With that the gallant Rainbow shot,
And shot, and shot in vain;
Then left the Rover's company

And re-turned home again.

"Our Royal King of England,

Your Ship's return'd again;
For Ward his ship it is so strong,
It never will be ta'en."

"O, Everlasting," cries our King,
"I have lost jewels three,

Who would have gone unto the Seas,
And brought proud Ward to me!

'The first he was Lord Clifford,

Earl of Cumberland;

The second was Lord Mountjoy,
As you may understand;
The third he was brave Essex,
From field would never flee-

And these had gone unto the Seas

And brought proud Ward to me!"

ANONYMOUS.

THE SEAMAN'S SONG OF CAPTAIN WARD AND DANSEKAR THE DUTCHMAN.

(Air The King's going to Bulloign.)

GALLANTS, you must understand,

Captain Ward of England,

A pirate and a rover on the sea-
Of late a simple fisherman,

In the little town of Faversham-
Grows famous in the world now merrily.

From the bay of Plymouth

Sail'd he toward the south,

With many more of courage and of might:
Christian princes have but few

Seamen such-were he but true,

And would but for his king and country fight.

Lusty Ward adventurously,

In the Straits of Barbary,

Did make the Turkish gallies sorely shake; Bouncing cannon, fiery hot,

Spared not the Turks one jot,

But of their lives great slaughter he did make.

The islanders of Malta,
With argosies at sea,

Most proudly braved Ward to his face;
But soon their pride was overthrown,
And all their treasures made his own,
And all their men brought to a woful case.

The wealthy ships of Venice
Afforded him great riches—

Both gold and silver won he with his sword.
Stately Spain and Portugal

Against him dare not send a sail,
But gave him all the title of a lord.

Golden-seated Candie,
Famous France and Italy,

With all the countries of the eastern parts,-
If once their ships his pride withstood,
They surely all were cloth'd in blood—
Such cruelty was recking in their hearts.

The riches he hath gained
And by bloodshed obtained

May well suffice for to maintain a king :
His fellows all are valiant wights,

Fit to make good princes' knights,-
But that their lives do base dishonour bring.

This wicked-gotten treasure

Doth him but scanty pleasure—

The land takes all what they do get by sea:
In drunkenness and lechery,

Filthy sins of sodomy,

Their evil-gotten goods do haste away.

Such as live by thieving

Do seldom have good ending,

As by the deeds of Captain Ward is shown;