A PEPYSIAN GARLAND - online book

Black-letter Broadside Ballads Of The years 1595-1639

	NEWS FROM HOLLAND'S LEAGUER
	Stand to push of pike and giue a thrust too: Those that gaue onset sometimes got th' worst ont, And at their parting most dearly haue curst ont. But howeuer it is spoken that Hollands Leager Vp lately is broken. 9 BUlworkes and batteries and other fences Daily manteined the Hand expences: Store of musition, and all things at pleasure, Fit for this company gold and rich treasure They had at her command yet it is, &c. 10   Now since the Leager broke and they are excluded The chiefe Commander by fate is subdued, Those that did them assault thought it small purchase, The Lion scorn es to prey on a dead carkas. This we heare certainly by many spoken, That Hollands, &c. 11    All those that vsed to frequent this border Are backe retired for there's a new order:
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