11 ‘Our royal king of England, your ship’s returnd again, For Ward’s ship is so strong it never will be tane:’ ‘O everlasting!’ says our king, ‘I have lost jewels three, Which would have gone unto the seas and brought proud Ward to me. 12 ‘The first was Lord Clifford, Earl of Cumberland; The second was the Lord Mountjoy, as you shall understand; The third was brave Essex, from field would never flee; Which would a gone unto the seas and brought proud Ward to me.’ * * * * * The Famous Sea-Fight between Captain Ward and the Rainbow. To the tune of Captain Ward, etc. Licensed and entered. London, Printed by and for W. Onley, and are to be sold by the Booksellers of Pye-corner and London-bridge. _Dated at the British Museum 1680 at the earliest._ 11^3. Everlasting shame, _in the Scottish stall-copies_. _A collation of Roxburghe_, III, 56, _shows only variations too trivial to note_. 288 THE YOUNG EARL OF ESSEX’S VICTORY OVER THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY =A.= ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Champion, or, Great Britain’s Glory,’ etc. =a.= Douce Ballads, III, fol. 80 b. =b.= Roxburghe, III, 416, in Ebsworth’s Roxburghe Ballads, VI, 405. =B.= ‘Earl of Essex’, Kinloch MSS, I, 113. =A= is printed also in Evans’s Old Ballads, 1777, II, 110, with slight variations from both Douce and Roxburghe. No printer’s name is given in either copy of =A=. From the use of a peculiar ornament between the columns in =a= (and perhaps in =b=), such as occurs in ballads printed at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by John White, the broadside may plausibly be attributed to him. White died in 1769. =A.= Queen Elizabeth fits out a powerful fleet to go in search of a vast navy under command of the emperor of Germany. The fleets sight each other after a week or ten days. The emperor, amazed at the splendid show made by the English, asks his officers who this can be that is sailing toward him, and is told that it is the young Earl (third earl) of Essex, the queen’s lieutenant. The emperor has heard enough of the father to make him fear a fight with the son, and proposes to tack and sail away; but the son asks his father to put the ships into his hands and let him fight with Essex. The emperor consents with a warning; if the young Essex shall prove like his father, farewell to their honor. Young Essex takes the emperor’s son prisoner; the emperor offers as a ransom three keys of gold, one of which shall be the key of High Germany. Essex cares not for the three keys; the emperor’s son must go to England and be exhibited to the queen. The emperor declares that, if it must be so, his fifty good ships shall go as well for company.