says Captain Ward,
"My name I never deny;
But if you be the King's good ship,
You're welcome to pass by."

"Yes, I am one of the King's good ships,
That I am to your great grief,
Whilst here I understand you lay
Playing the rogue and thief."

"Oh! here am I," says Captain Ward;
"I value you not one pin;
If you are bright brass without,
I am true steel within."

At four o'clock o' the morning
They did begin to fight,
And so they did continue
Till nine or ten at night.

[Says Captain Ward unto his men,
"My boys, what shall we do?
We have not got one shot on board,
We shall get overthrow.]

"Fight you on, fight you on," says Captain Ward,
"Your sport will pleasure be,
And if you fight for a month or more
Your master I will be."

Oh! then the gallant Rainbow
Went raging down of the main,
Saying, "There lay proud Ward at sea,
And there he must remain."

"Captain Wake and Captain Drake,
And good Lord Henerie,
If I had one of them alive,
They'd bring proud Ward to me."

Appended was this editorial note: "The date of Captain Ward is
approximately established by Andrew Barker's 'Report of the two famous
Pirates, Captain Ward and Danseker' (Lond. 1609, 4to), and by Richard
Daburn's 'A Christian turn'd Turke, or the tragical Lives and Deaths of
the two famous Pyrates, Ward and Dansiker. As it hath beene publickly
acted' (Lond. 1612, 4to).

And the next week there was the following answer:--

"Having found that in Chappell's 'Popular Music of the Olden Time'
there was mention made of a tune called 'Captain Ward,' I wrote to Mr
Chappell himself. He says about the ballad: 'For "A famous sea-fight
between Captain Ward and the Rainbow" see Roxburghe Collection, v. 3,
fol. 56, printed for F. Coles, and another with printer's name cut off
in the same volume, fol. 654; an edition in the Pepys Collection, v.
4, fol. 202, by Clarke Thackeray and Passinger; two in the Bayford,
[643, m. 9 / 65] and [643, m. 10 / 78]. These are by W. Onbey, and
the second in white letter. Further, two Aldermary Church Yard
editions in Rox. v. 3, folios 652 and 861. The ballad has an
Elizabethan cut about it, beginning, "Strike up, you lusty Gallants."
If I remember rightly, Ward was a famous pirate of Elizabeth's reign,
about the same time as Dansekar the Dutchman.'

"I went down myself to Magdalene, and saw the copy in the Pepysian
Libr