The Year of Wonders.
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Thus re-inforc'd, against the adverse Fleet,
Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way:
Fourth days Battel..With the first blushes of the Morn they meet,
And bring night back upon the new-born day.
Thus re-inforc'd, against the adverse Fleet,
Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way:
Fourth days Battel..With the first blushes of the Morn they meet,
And bring night back upon the new-born day.
120.
His Presence soon blows up the kindling Fight,
And his loud Guns speak thick like angry men:
It seem'd as Slaughter had been breath'd all night,
And Death new pointEd his dull Dart agEn.
His Presence soon blows up the kindling Fight,
And his loud Guns speak thick like angry men:
It seem'd as Slaughter had been breath'd all night,
And Death new pointEd his dull Dart agEn.
121.
The Dutch, too well his mighty Conduct knew,
And matchless Courage since the former Fight;
Whose Navy like a stiff-stretch'd cord did shew,
Till he bore in, and bent them into flight.
The Dutch, too well his mighty Conduct knew,
And matchless Courage since the former Fight;
Whose Navy like a stiff-stretch'd cord did shew,
Till he bore in, and bent them into flight.
122.
The Wind he shares while half their Fleet offends
His open side, and high above him shews:
Upon the rest at pleasure he descends,
And, doubly harm'd he double harms bestows.
The Wind he shares while half their Fleet offends
His open side, and high above him shews:
Upon the rest at pleasure he descends,
And, doubly harm'd he double harms bestows.
123. Behind,
