Amazing things you can find on the Internet
"The woman warrier: being an account of a young woman who lived in Cow=cross, near Westsmithfield; who changing her apparel entered her self on board, in quality of a soldier, and sailed to Ireland, where she valiantly behaved her self, particularly at the siege of Cork, where she lost her toes and received a mortal wound in her body, of which she since dyed in her return to London."
The image is from a 1690, English broadside about a woman dressing up as a man and going off to war, none knowing the truth until she lay dying.
Yet of all the ship's crew
Not a seaman that knew
They then had a woman so near 'em
These are the lyrics to a song, sung to the tune of Let the Soldiers Rejoice.
What a fine time we live in. So many libraries and museums are digging old papers out of storage and scanning them for the entire world to share. A chance encounter while looking for something else. You can see the entire page at the Harvard Library.
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