And Pryde, and pembrook followed him,
and so did that Knave Wyl[unr]
They then in Councel did agree,
that Noll had now lost all;
In every Face you might there see,
and reade the Round-heads fall.
At last they began to Consider how more Forces might be
instantly advanced thither, offering great Sums and Rewards
to those Officers that durst be so fool-hardy as to adventure
over; but very few appeared in that Action: the Reason some
say is, because those Seas are too dangerous for a winters
Voyage, and the Clymate of that Country agrees not with
such Venomous Creatures: the Flux being so brief amongst
them; that of 13000 that marched out of Dublin, there is not
Returned one thousand, and those most of them Sick and
Wounded: yet howsoever they at last agreed to send over 5000
more if they can get them to go, howsoever with all speed to
get all things in a Readiness for their Voyage.
Storms, Wracks and Winds, Cross-weather, ill
Keep them all back, that make a Trade to kill.
Prince RUPERT fitted with Winds, with Six of his best
Ships is broke through their Fleet that lay before Kingsale to
keep him in: Three of their Ships he sunk, and took two, and
carried them to Waterford: he is now OUT, and begins to
play his part at Sea, so that this Winter it will be but ill Landing
any men there: the rest of the Ships are safe, lying under
the Command of the Castle, and cannot be reached by the Enemy.
A false Report was blown abroad by those that would have
it so, That the King and the Duke of York were both drowned
at Sea: much more welcomer had it been to the People, if they
had heard that happy news, That all His Rebellious Subjects
had been hanged by Land, we might then have hoped for
Peace but now there is no likelihood of being acquainted with
Her, till that injured Prince comes with all the Assistance he
can get from his Friends to poure his justly insensed anger up