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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: