England suffers danger As well as any stranger; Nations are alike unto this company; Many English merchant-men, And of London now and then, Have tasted of their vile extremity. London’s _Elizabeth_ Of late these rovers taken hath, A ship well laden with rich merchandize; The nimble _Pearl_ and _Charity_, All ships of gallant bravery, Are by these pyrates made a lawful prize. The _Trojan_ of London, With other ships many a one, Hath stooped sail, and yielded out of hand, (These pyrates they have shed their bloods, And the Turks have bought their goods), Being all too weak their power to withstand. Of Hull the _Bonaventer_, Which was a great frequenter And passer of the Straits to Barbary, Both ship and men [late] taken were By Pyrates Ward and Dansekar, And brought by them into captivity. English Ward and Dansekar Begin greatly now to jar About [the true] dividing [of] their goods; Both ships and soldiers gather head, Dansekar from Ward is fled: So full of pride and malice are their bloods. Ward doth only promise To keep about rich Tunis, And be commander of those Turkish seas; But valiant Dutch-land Dansekar Doth hover neer unto Argier, And there his threat’ning colours now displays. These pyrates thus divided, By God is sure provided In secret sort to work each other’s woe; Such wicked courses cannot stand, The Divel thus puts in his hand, And God will give them soon an overthrow. _THE FAMOUS SEA-FIGHT BETWEEN CAPTAIN WARD AND THE RAINBOW._ To the Tune of _Captain Ward_, etc. Strike up, you lusty gallants, with musick and sound of drum: For we have descry’d a rover upon the sea is come; His name is Captain Ward, right well it doth appear There has not been such a rover found out this thousand year; For he hath sent unto our King, the sixth of January, Desiring that he might come in, with all his company; ‘And if your King will let me come, till I my tale have told, I will bestow for my ransome full thirty tun of gold.’ ‘O nay! O nay!’ then said our King, ‘O nay, this may not be, To yield to such a rover my self will not agree; He hath deceiv’d the French-man, likewise the King of Spain, And how can he be true to me, that hath been false to twain?’ With that our King provided a ship of worthy fame; _Rainbow_ she is called, if you would know her name. Now the gallant _Rainbow_ she rowes upon the sea, Five hundred gallant seamen to bear her company. The Dutch-man and the Spaniard she made them for to flye, Also the bonny French-man, as she met him on the sea. When as this gallant _Rainbow_, did come where Ward did lye, Where is the captain of this ship?’ this gallant _Rainbow_ did cry.