A New BALLAD Of a Famous Germane PRINCE and a renowned English DUKE who on St. James' day One thousand 666 fought with a Beast with Seven Heads called Provinces not by Land but by Water not to be said but sung not in high English nor Low Dutch but to a new French Tune called Monsieur Ragou or The Dancing Hobby-horses THere happened of late a Terrible Fray Begun upon our * On Saint James' day 1581. the Seven Provinces first Resolved themselves into Free-States S. James' day With a Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump Thump a Thump Thump Where Rupert and George for CHARLEMAIGN Swinged the Dutch again and again As if they had been but the French or Dane With a Thump etc. 'T was brave Tom Allen led the Van Stout Vtber and bold Tiddiman With a Thump etc. And then our Immortal GENERALS With twenty thousand Thunderballs Pierced their boggy flesh-mud-walls With a Thump Thump etc. The Game was hot and then you 'll swear That Jordan Heart of Oak was there With a Thump Thump etc. And gallant Holmes that never fails Torn and hurt yet still prevails Valiant with or without his Sails With a Thump Thump etc. The Royal Charles was all their Aim For there they knew was Princely Game With a Thump etc. Seven Provinces here spend their Choir De Ruyter's mighty Triple Tyre But had his Answer all in Fire With a Thump etc. For here our glorious Prince and Duke Gave him such a sore Rebuke With a Thump etc. That now De Ruyter finds it clear The Warlike English have no peer Who dare do any thing but Fear A Thump Thump etc. The Sovereign came to revenge her Wrongs Becalmed a while for want of Lungs Without any Thump etc. But soon as her dreadful Sail displayed Good Lord what Lanes and Wrecks she made The Devil a Dutch came nigh or stayed For fear of a Thump Thump etc. Her Balls of Fire the Fleming sees Are thrice as big as a Holland-Cheese With a Thump etc. And now they ran they ran they ran And left poor Zealand shift as it can They made him the Rear who would be the Van Van Trump Trump Trump etc. The Kings own Colours Red and White Pursued the Boors all day and night With a Thump etc. O how 't would Lords and Commons please To see our Sovereign of the Seas Chase their Seven Provinces With a Thump etc. Over Flatts and Banks we fired their tails Till we heard their croaking Nightingales With a Thump etc. This difference 'twixt two Navies stands Ours built for the Sea and theirs for the Sands We had sent them else to their last Netherlands With a Thump Thump etc. Their Shott still at our Tackling flew Lest when they ran we should pursue With a Thump etc. For though the Dutch are Seamen grown Bold English are the Marks-men known And therefore kill them six for one With a Thump Thump etc. Our Rear was Smith with other two Spragge and Kempthorn both true Blue With a Thump etc. And here the Zealanders came on Who stoutly gave us Gun for Gun Till Holland-like they also run With a Thump Thump etc. In In In In said Valiant Spragge we 'll beat this vapouring Trump to th' Hague With a Thump etc. His Chaplain fell to his wont work Cried Now for the King and the Duke of York He prayed like a Christian and fought like a Turk With a Thump Thump etc. Six thousand  a Low-Country Dish We sent to their own Cousin the Fish With a Thump etc. The rest into Holes so tamely crawl That little Fanfan dared them all Great Rupert's Sloop is an Admiral With a Thump Thump etc. What Amsterdamnable Cowards are these To boast that they were Lords of the Seas With a Thump & c Their Impudent Gazette proclaims How bravely they locked up the Thames But had no leave from CHARLES or JAMES And therefore had a Thump Thump etc. And now De Wit 's new Holland Rump Who rides the States will burn to th' Stump With a Thump etc. For George in England once before Hath fired one Rump and will do more Till Men and Bells all Dutch-land o'er Sing Rump Rump etc. Then let them invent some other Cheat Go hang their Captains 'cause they are bear With a Thump etc. Let Monsieur or Mine Here that snarls At our Sovereign and Royal Charles Beware of rupert's and Albemarles With a Thump Thump etc. Printed in the Year 1666.