XXV. Queen Elizabeth's Champion: Or, A Victory _obtained by the Young Earl of Effex, over the Old Emperor of Germany, by Sea; in which he took the Emperor's Son, and brought him Prisoner to Queen Elizabeth. I will not trouble my Reader with a tedious Introduction to this Ballad. The Earl of Effex, the Heroe of the Song, fought feve ral times, and with good Succefs, against the Spaniards; which of his Battles this was writ upon, I fhall leave those who are better acquainted with History to determine. COME found up your Trumpets, and beat up (your Drums, And let's go to Sea with a valiant good Cheer, In fearch of a mighty vaft Navy of Ships, The like has not been for this fifty long Years, Raderer two, tandaro te Raderer, tadorer, tan do re. The Queen she provided a Navy of Ships, Rich Top and Top-gallants, Captains and Lieutenants Some forty, fome fifty Brafs Pieces and three, Raderer two, &c. They had not fail'd past a Week on the Seas, When he beheld our powerful Fleet, These were the Words of the Old Emperor, It is not a King nor Lord of a Crown, Which now to the Seas with his Navy is come, But the young Earl of Effex, the Queen's Lieutenant, Who fears no Foes in Christendom, Raderer two, &c. Oh! Is that young Lord then come to the Seas, I have heard fo much of his Father before, Oh! then bespoke the Emperor's Son, Take Take them with all my Heart, loving Son, With Cannons hot, and thundering Shot, The Emperor's Son by him was ta'n, Give me my Son, the Emperor cry'd, I care not for thy three Keys of Gold, Then have I fifty good Ships of the beft, They had not fought this famous Battle, Effex he got this Battle likewise, Tho' 'twas the sharpeft that ever was seen, |