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445
[Ye Heers and Hogans all, We greet you well!]
These Figures represent a French Trumpet and Drum sent by Louis le Grand, to enquire News of several Citys lost by the Mighty Monarch last Campaign, 1706.
Can any of you Tale or Tidings tell
Of goodly Citys lost, both far and near,
Gaunt, Brussels, Antwerp, Dendermond, and Liere,
Aeth, Ostend, Bruges, Mecklin, Lovain,
Menin; all Flanders, and the half of Spain,
Rodrigo, Barcelona, and Valentia,
Coria, Saragosa, and Placentia,
Almaras, Salamanca, Alicant?
Guns, Mortars, Bag and Baggage too, we want.
Great Lewis says, if you can bring 'em forth,
He'l pay you, if you'l trust him, what they're worth.
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