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For all the devils in hell.

And then the fearful enemy
Was quickly put to flight,
Our men perfued couragiously,
And caught their forces quite ;
But at last they gave a shout,

Which ecchoed through the sky,
God, and St. George for England!

The conquerers did cry.

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XXI.

VICTORIOUS MEN OF EARTH.

This little moral fonnet hath fuch a pointed application to the heroes of the foregoing and following ballads, that I cannot help placing it here, tho' the date of its compofition is of a much later period. It is extracted from "Cupid and "Death, a mafque by J. S. [James Shirley] prefented "Mar. 26. 1653. London printed 1653.” 4to.

Ictorious men of earth, no more

Proclaim how wide your empires are ;

Though you binde in every fhore,

And your triumphs reach as far

As night or day,

Yet you proud monarchs must obey,

And mingle with forgotten afhes, when

Death calls yee to the croud of common men.

Devouring famine, plague, and war,

Each able to undo mankind,

Death's fervile emiffaries are:

Nor to thefe alone confin'd,

He hath at will

More quaint and fubtle wayes to kill; A fmile or kifs, as he will use the art,

Shall have the cunning skill to break a heart.

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THE WINNING OF CALES.

The fubject of this ballad is the taking of the city of Cadiz, (called by our failors corruptly Cales) on June 21. 1596, in a descent made on the coast of Spain, under the command of the Lord Howard admiral, and the Earl of Effex general.

The valour of Effex was not more diftinguished on this occafion than his generofity: the town was carried word in hand, but he ftopt the flaughter as foon as possible, and treated his prisoners with the greatest humanity, and even affability and kindness. The English made a rich plunder in the city, but miss'd of a much richer, by the refolution which the Duke of Medina the Spanish admiral took, of Jetting fire to the hips, in order to prevent their falling into the hands of the enemy. It was computed, that the lofs which the Spaniards fuftained from this enterprize, amounted to twenty millions of ducats. See Hume's Hift.

The Earl of Effex knighted on this occafion not fewer than fixty perfons, which gave rise to the following farcasm,

A gentleman of Wales, a knight of Cales,
And a laird of the North country;
But a yeoman of Kent with his yearly rent
Will buy them out all three.

The ballad is printed from the Editor's folio MS. and feems to have been compofed by fome perfon, who was con

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