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Pleasant and Divertive. 5
Besides all this, I can you tell,
That he was well Endowed
With many Graces of the Mind,
Had they been well bestowed.
He was as Liberal as the Sun,
His Gold he freely spent ;
Whether it were his own Estate,
Or that it were him lent.
For Valour he a Lyon was,
I say a Lyon bold ;
For he no Living Man did Fear,
That Sword in Hand did hold.
And when that he with glittering Blade,
Did e'er assail his Foes ;
Full well I tro, they did not miss
Their Belly full of Blows.
A French Man once assaulted him,
And told him that he Ly'd ; _
For which with Quart-pot he him slew,
And so the French Man Dy'd,
Three Danes, Six Gentians, and Five Swedes,
Met him in Lane of Drury ;
Who cause they took of him the Wall,
He Kill'd them in his Fury.
Upon his Body welladay,
Full many a Scar he bore ;
His Skin did look like Sattin Pinck'd,
With Gashes many a Score.
Oh ! had he lost that Noble Blood
For Country's Liberty ;
Where could all England then have found
So brave a Man as he ?
But