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Fire on, fire on ſays Captain Ward,
I value you not a pin
If you be braſs on the outſide,
I'm as good ſteel within,
They fought from eight in the morning,
till eight o'clock at night.
Till once the gallant Rainbow,
began to take her flight
Go home, go home, ſays Captain Ward,
and tell your king from me,
if he reigns king upon dry land,
I will reign king at ſea.
With that the gallant Rainbow,
ſhe ſhot and ſhot in vain,
Then left the Rover's campany,
and home returned again.
Tell our royal king of England,
his ſhip's returned again,
For captain Ward he is too ſtrong,
he never will be ta'en
O everlaſting ſhame, said the king
I have loſt jewels three.
Which would have gone unto the ſea,
and brought proud Ward to me.
The firſt was brave Lord Clifford,
great Earl of Cumberland,
The ſecond was my Lord Mountjoy,
as you ſhall underſtand:
