Battel and Death they make their chief Delight,
And in all Nations teach the World to fight.
Buda the dreadfull'ſt Siege the World ere ſaw,
What Hero's did the Fame of Danger Draw?
[1] Leſly th' Old Croatian Ban appears,
And daring Scots led up the Volunteers.
What Actions paſſ't, let only ſuch relate,
Who know how Men reſolv'd to Conquer meet;
Never was Town with ſuch ſtrange Fury fill'd,
Such Deeds Victoria ſeldom has beheld;
Such Storms, ſuch Fury, Fleſh and Blood nere bore,
Nor Town was ever ſo maintain'd hefore;
The deſp'rate Garriſon diſdain to Fear,
With their own ſlaughter'd Bones the Breach repair;
Contemning Mercy, they like Furies fight,
And juſt as faſt as Life declin'd, ſubmit.
What Streams of Blood muſt in ſuch Fights be loſt?
What Fatal Price muſt ſuch a Conqueſt coſt?
Life ſo beſtow'd, is always ſold too dear,
- ↑ Lesly. This was, Old Lesly, General of the Imperial Forces, and made Ban or Governour of Croatia by the Emperor, the same that burnt the Bridge of Esseck, and tho near 80 Years of Age, and tortur'd with the Gout, yet perform'd a great many desperate Services against the Turks during that War, and some of them in the Depth of Winter.
