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The French-man's lamentation for the great loss of their noble general Mounsieur de Turenne. Who was kill'd by a cannon, shot from a party of the Emperours army, which lay in ambuscade in a wood, and shot him in the breast, where he dyed immediately, and his Lieutenant was then killed by him, which was on the 3 of July 1675. Mounsieur Turenne being then in the 64th. year of his age, and had been Marshal of France just half his time, being 32 years. To the tune of, A fig for France and Holland too.

Title:The French-man's lamentation for the great loss of their noble general Mounsieur de Turenne. Who was kill'd by a cannon, shot from a party of the Emperours army, which lay in ambuscade in a wood, and shot him in the breast, where he dyed immediately, and his Lieutenant was then killed by him, which was on the 3 of July 1675. Mounsieur Turenne being then in the 64th. year of his age, and had been Marshal of France just half his time, being 32 years. To the tune of, A fig for France and Holland too.
Note:[London] : Printed for W. Thackery, in Duck-lane, and I. Hose, in Holbourn. VVith allowance, [1675]
  
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Subject:Turenne, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de, 1611-1675 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800
Subject:Ballads, English -- 17th century
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