A PEPYSIAN GARLAND - online book

Black-letter Broadside Ballads Of The years 1595-1639

	GALLANTS, TO BOHEMIA To a pleasant new Warlike tune. i YE noble Brittaines, be no more possest with ease vpon the shore: You that haue beene so bold and stout, sit not musing, but looke out: Kings of England with their shields full oft haue fought in martiall fields, And golden prizes did obtaine: Then let vs to the warres againe. 2   Ye noble Captaines of the Land, and Sea men of such braue command: Bend all your forces to the Seas, and take on Land no longer ease: For Drums and Trumpets are not mute, to call you forth with Fife and Flute, To fleete your ships vpon the maine, Then let vs to the warres againe. 3   Now Sea-men Pylots leaue the Land, Card and Compasse take in hand: And hye againe to Neptune Seas, where we'l haue riches when we please Our Souldiers they are men of might, and will for gold and siluer fight: Which doth vs brauely all maintaine, Then let vs to the warres againe. 4   France and Flanders makes no mone, they get riches, we get none, Flemish Captaines sayle about, vnknowne Islands to find out:
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