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 The most conspicuous officers

Were English captains three, But the bravest man in battel

Was brave Lord Willoughby.

The next was Captain Norris,

A valiant man was he : The other, Captain Turner,

From field would never flee. With fifteen hundred fighting men,

Alas ! there were no more, They fought with forty thousand then

Upon the bloody shore.

'Stand to it, noble pikeman,

And look you round about: And shoot you right, you bow-men,

And we will keep them out: You musquet and cailiver men,

Do you prove true to me, I'll be the bravest man in fight,'

Says brave Lord Willoughby.

And then the bloody enemy

They fiercely did assail, And fought it out most furiously,

Not doubting to prevail: The wounded men on both sides fell

Most piteous for to see, But nothing could the courage quell

Of brave Ixml Willoughby.

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