. The Roxburghe ballads. ou cannot say to me,You are no warrior! as the Tartar women say to their husbands when they return empty-handed .... For two nights and a day plunder has gone on at will; even thetowns-folk have taken their share, and I am sure that there is enough left foreight days more. The plunder we got at Uhoczim was nothing to this. Bravehero, hedeserved all that he got, his share of spoil, the rapturous acclaims of thetroops and the rescued Viennese who had fought so well; all that history canrecord of his prowess. But the mean and grudging jealousy of the Emperor,is sickening
. The Roxburghe ballads. ou cannot say to me,You are no warrior! as the Tartar women say to their husbands when they return empty-handed .... For two nights and a day plunder has gone on at will; even thetowns-folk have taken their share, and I am sure that there is enough left foreight days more. The plunder we got at Uhoczim was nothing to this. Bravehero, hedeserved all that he got, his share of spoil, the rapturous acclaims of thetroops and the rescued Viennese who had fought so well; all that history canrecord of his prowess. But the mean and grudging jealousy of the Emperor,is sickening to record : his ingratitude being the one thing which Sobieski did notdeserve in repayment from the House of Hapsburg. *** We have yet another ballad on the Victories gained by the Christianarmies over the Turks. But it is of a later victory than the September raisingof the Turkish Siege at Vienna: one of the Hungarian battles, before the deathof Kara Mustapha. The locality appears to be Bar can, and the time Oct., [This cut belongs to p. 374.] T ;;:7 Cbe Christians JBeto Wctotp, at 15atcan. But, Ottoman, pray get you gone,We Christians do but draw you ou ;Well greater booty have, or none, And it youll now prevent it,If ever you turn your face this way,Well make the Cannon-musick play ;And you shall dance the English Hey,Till all your bones lament it. Our Eoyal James v/iW make you knowThe sharpness of a Yorkshire Ho !And prove by land and sea your Foe, If Charles command to do it ;Both England, Scotland, Dutch and Bane,And all his Islands of the Main,Will not be able to refrain, If he once bid to shew it. —A Plaudile on the Ottoman Defeat at HE subject of this ballad, The Christians New Victory Overthe Turks, in Hungary, is in much closer connection with theDuke of Monmouth than at first sight appears. Re-issued early inthe year 168f, with a loyal reference to our Royal MonarchJames, at that time newly seated on the English throne, insteadof the former appella
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