The Young Earl of Essex's Victory over the Emperor of Germany
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The Young Earl of Essex’s Victory Over the Emperor of Germany is Child Ballad 288.
-- and meets up with ships of the emperor of Germany. They hail each other, and the earl's proud greeting causes the emperor's son to ask for ships to go against him. They fight, and the emperor's son is defeated and captured. The emperor tries to ransome him, but the earl insists on bringing him prisoner before the queen.
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The earl takes to sea—despite, in some variants, the pleas of his love and her reminder of the fate of BenbowJohn Benbow
John Benbow was an English officer in the Royal Navy. He joined the navy aged 25 years, seeing action against Algerian pirates before leaving and joining the merchant navy where he traded until the Glorious Revolution of 1688, whereupon he returned to the Royal Navy and was commissioned.Benbow...
-- and meets up with ships of the emperor of Germany. They hail each other, and the earl's proud greeting causes the emperor's son to ask for ships to go against him. They fight, and the emperor's son is defeated and captured. The emperor tries to ransome him, but the earl insists on bringing him prisoner before the queen.