not entered, but the tune is that of a ballad registered in March 1611
(Arber, _Stationers’ Register_, iii. 206, b.). The ballad may refer
to an historical event. ‘In 1596 letters of reprisal were granted to
Diggory Piper in the Sweepstakes of London.... He was authorised to
attack Spanish and Portuguese ships; he commenced with some Flemings,
continued with two French traders, and finished with a Dane having
goods worth 3,000_l._ on board.’ (Oppenheim, _The Administration of the
Royal Navy_, p. 180).
P. 25. =The Seaman’s Song of Captain Ward.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi.
784. Date of first publication July 3, 1609 (Arber, _Stationers’
Register_, iii. 185, b.).
P. 27. =The Song of Danseker.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 423. Same date
as the preceding.
P. 30. =Captain Ward and the Rainbow.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 426.
The earliest printed editions of this ballad belong to the latter half
of the seventeenth century. It was reprinted as a broadside by J. Pitts
in the early part of the nineteenth century. See Logan, _A Pedlar’s
Pack_, p. 7. The ballad is possibly a legendary version of Rainborow’s
expedition to Sallee in 1637. Essex is celebrated as a naval commander
in _Queen Elizabeth’s Champion_ (_Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 405).
P. 31. =The Lamentable Cries of 1,500 Christians.= Text from a MS. in
the Bodleian Library (_MS. Rawlinson Poet._ clii. f. 36).
P. 34. =The Honour of Bristol.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 429. A later
version, entitled _The Jovial Mariner’s Resolution_, is contained in
a chapbook, called _The Jovial Mariner’s Garland_, in the Bodleian
Library (Douce P.P. 183).
P. 36. =Neptune to England.= Printed by Halliwell, _Early Naval
Ballads_, p. 68, from _MS. Sloane_, 1514, f. 40, in the British Museum.
P. 36. =On His Majesties Fleet.= Text from _Add. MS._ 29, 975, f. 109,
in the British Museum.
P. 37. =Upon the Great Ship.= Text from _MS. Rawlinson Poet._ clx. f.
164, in the Bodleian Library. A poem on the same subject in Latin and
English is printed in Sir Richard Fanshawe’s _Pastor Fido and Poems_,
ed. 1676, p. 228.
P. 40. =Sailors for my Money.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 797. Date
somewhere between 1630 and 1655. Mr. Ebsworth dates it 1635. On its
author, Martin Parker, see _Dictionary of National Biography_, xliii.
242.
P. 42. =The Jovial Mariner.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 369. Attributed
by Mr. Ebsworth to John Playford and dated circa 1670-84.
P. 45. =Neptune’s Raging Fury.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 432. Written
about 1635, says Mr. Ebsworth. For the tune see Chappell’s _Old English
Popular Music_, ed. Wooldridge, ii. 47.
P. 47. =The Famous Fight at Malago.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, iv. 412; and
Halliwell, _Early Naval Ballads_, p. 64. The fight took place in July
1656. The five frigates were the Lyme, Nantwich, Newbury, Maidstone,
and Ruby, with the Fox fireship, so that only one of the names given in
verse 2 is correct. See _Thurloe State Papers_, v. 195, 233, 257.
P. 48. =Elegy on the Death of Robert Blake.= From a pamphlet in the
British Museum (669. f. 20 [21]).
P. 53. =The Valiant Seaman’s Congratulation to King Charles II.= From
the Euing collection in the Library of the University of Glasgow (No.
368). For the tune see Chappell, _Old English Popular Music_, ii. 15.
P. 54. =England’s Valour and Holland’s Terrour.= From the Euing
collection (No. 103).
P. 56. =Song Written at Sea.= By the Earl of Dorset, printed in
Rochester’s _Works_, ed. 1731, vol. ii. p. 53, and reprinted in Ward’s
_English Poets_, ii. 412. Tune and words in Chappell’s _Old English
Popular Music_, ed. Wooldridge, ii. 154. In the last line of verse 3
Chappell reads ‘bring’ instead of ‘waft.’ For another version, see
_Pills to Purge Melancholy_, v. 168.
P. 58. =The Royal Victory.= Printed in _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi.
435. Dated by Ebsworth, June 9, 1665. Tune given in Chappell, ed.
Wooldridge, i. 259.
P. 61. =The English Seaman’s Resolution.= From the Euing collection
(No. 106).
P. 63. =England’s Tryumph and Holland’s Downfall.= From the Euing
collection (No. 93).
P. 68. =England’s Royal Conquest.= From Anthony Wood’s collection in
the Bodleian Library (Wood, E. 25. f. 55). Printed for Richard Burton,
at the Horse-Shoe in West-Smithfield.
P. 69. =Holland turn’d to Tinder.= From the Euing collection (No. 134).
Printed by E. Crowch for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright.
P. 72. =A New Ballad of a Famous German Prince.= From Anthony Wood’s
collection in the Bodleian Library (Wood, E. 416. f. 111). The Second
Part is from the same source (f. 113).
P. 79. =The Dutch Damnified.= From the Euing collection (No. 60).
P. 82. =A Song on the Duke’s late Glorious Success.= Printed by
Halliwell, _Early Naval Ballads_, p. 62, from a broadside in the
possession of Mr. Rimbault. On the battle of Solebay, May 28, 1672.
P. 83. =News from the Coast of Spain.= From the Rawlinson collection in
the Bodleian (Rawlinson, 566, p. 82). Action February 13, 1674.
P. 86. =Captain Mansfield’s Fight with the Turks.= From the Madden
collection in the Cambridge University Library (_Slipsongs_, i. 120,
No. 260). Probably based on Kempthorne’s repulse of the seven Algerine
ships, December 29, 1669. May refer to Captain Michael Mansfield, on
whom see Charnock, _Biographia Navalis_, i. 348.
P. 88. =The Algiers Slave’s Releasement.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 447.
P. 89. =The Benjamin’s Lamentation.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vii. 529.
P. 92. =The Treachery of the Spaniards of Porto Rico.= From the Pepys
collection in the Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge, v. 374.
The Journal of Ignatius White, the captain of the Dartmouth, gives an
interesting account of this incident, dated April 1686 (No. 3819). See
also MS., Rawlinson A., clxxxix. f. 337.
P. 95. =The Golden Voyage.= From the Pepys collection (iv. 199).
Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking Glass on London Bridge.
P. 97. =The Boatswain’s Call.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, iii. 463.
P. 99. =The Undaunted Seaman.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vii. 551.
P. 101. =The Seaman’s Adieu.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vii. 524.
P. 104. =The Maiden’s Frolick.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, iii. 402.
P. 106. =The Courageous Commander.= From the Pepys collection (iv.
219). Printed for R. Kell, at the White Hart, near Pye Corner, in West
Smithfield.
P. 108. =The Seaman’s Victory.= _Bagford Ballads_, i. 283.
P. 110. =Torringtonia.= From the Pepys collection (v. 377).
P. 112. =England’s Triumph at Sea.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vii. 745, and
_Poems on State Affairs_, I. ii. 263. The text of the two versions
differs. Verses 9 and 10 are added from a manuscript.
P. 113. =England’s Great Loss by a Storm of Wind.= Printed in Ashton’s
_Real Sailor Songs_, p. 40*. Another version is in the Madden
collection, entitled _A Copy of Verses made upon the Loss of the
Coronation, and eight more Ships of War_ (_Slipsongs_, i. 174, No.
372). A third version, printed in Marryat’s _Poor Jack_, is headed _The
Return from the Baltic of the English Fleet under Admiral Sir Edward
Russell_. All are late versions, and full of corruptions. They place
the disaster in November, instead of September 1691, and differ in the
names of the ships. According to Burchett, the Coronation was lost with
most of her crew, the Harwich ‘ran on shore and bulged,’ the Royal Oak
and Northumberland ‘tailed on the ground, though afterwards they were
luckily got off’ (_Transactions at Sea_, p. 102; cf. Clowes, ii. 345).
The second line of verse 4 is, in Marryat’s version, ‘But fiercely to
the west did run’; in the Madden copy, ‘The sea strong to the west did
run.’ In verse 5, Marryat’s version runs:
‘A-shore went the Northumberland,
The Harwich and the Cumberland,
The Lion, and the Warwick too;
But Elizabeth, she had most for to rue,
She came stem on, and her Lion broke,
And she sunk the Gloster at the stroke.’
Marryat’s version draws a moral from the disaster:
‘They was punished for their misdeeds
For grumbling when they had no needs.’
The Madden copy, on the other hand, says:
‘Walking Plymouth streets one day,
I heard some sea captains for to say
“God will reward us for our deeds,
In flogging men when there’s no need.”’
There are many minor variations in the three versions which are not
worth noting.
P. 114. =Naval Warfare of 1692.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vii. 746.
P. 117. =The Royal Triumph.= _Bagford Ballads_, i. 297. ‘Fistula
master’ in verse 10 is an allusion to the fact that Louis XIV. was
operated upon for a fistula November 18, 1686. (Martin, _Histoire de
France_, 4th ed. xiv. 74).
P. 119. =Admiral Russell’s Scowering the French Fleet.= Printed in
_Bagford Ballads_, i. 119, from a copy in _The Midshipman’s Garland_,
published in Queen Anne’s reign. The tune and four verses of the ballad
are given in D’Urfey’s _Pills to Purge Melancholy_, iv. 333. In the
second verse D’Urfey reads ‘scupper-holes’ instead of ‘port-holes,’
and ‘king’ instead of ‘queen’ in verse 4. Verses 5 and 6 are probably
later additions to the original. For tune see _The Edinburgh Musical
Miscellany_, 1804, p. 270.
P. 120. =A Merry New Ballad.= From the Pepys collection (v. 382). A
broadside printed ‘for R. Baldwin near the Oxford Arms in Warwick
Lane,’ 1692. In the last verse ‘Petres’ refers to Edward Petre the
Jesuit, confessor of James II.
P. 125. =The Valiant Seaman’s Courage.= From the Pepys collection
(v. 385). A broadside printed for C. Bates at the White Hart in West
Smithfield.
P. 126. =England’s Glory in the Behaviour of Brave Killeygrove.=
Printed in Ashton’s _Real Sailor Songs_, p. 10. Original in British
Museum (pressmark l. 20. c. 30 [18]). See Charnock, _Biographia
Navalis_, ii. 328. In the last line ‘Marseilles’ is evidently a
misprint for ‘Messina.’
P. 128. =The Frighted French.= _Roxburghe Ballads_, vi. 446. The
original reads ‘do tide’ in verse 5.
P. 129. =The Cæsar’s Victory.= From the Pepys collection (iv. 198). A
broadside printed for J. Deacon at the Angel in Giltspur Street.
P. 131. =A Copy of Verses by Captain Henry Every.= From the Pepys
collection (v. 384). There is an eighteenth-century version in the
Madden collection (_Slipsongs_ ii. 72, No. 1, 166) entitled _Bold
Captain Avery_. The numerous variants in the later version are merely
corruptions and not worth noting. The ballad follows very closely the
facts set forth at the trial of six of Every’s crew in 1696. Henry
Every, _alias_ Bridgman, on May 30, 1694, seized a merchant ship called
The Charles the Second, Charles Gibson master, as she lay at anchor
about three leagues from the Groyne (_i.e._ Corunna). Having set Gibson
and sixteen honest men ashore and renamed the ship, Every sailed for
the coast of Guinea. A proclamation against Captain Henry Every, of the
ship Phancy, was issued July 18, 1696 (Luttrell’s _Diary_, iv. 86).
The reference to the different flags used by pirates in verses 9-12 is
explained by the following extract from the narrative of a captive:
‘About eleven of the clock one night, after the whole crew had been
some time assembled in the great cabbin, I heard three huzzas, and then
they all came up on deck and hoisted _Jolly Roger_ (for so they call
their black ensign, in the middle of which is a large white skeleton
with a dart in one hand striking a bleeding heart, and in the other an
hour-glass).... When they fight under _Jolly Roger_ they give quarter,
which they do not when they fight under the red or bloody flag.’ (From
Captain Richard Hawkins’s account of his capture by Captain Spriggs
and his sufferings amongst the pirates of the Spanish Main in the year
1724, reprinted in Boyer’s _Political State of Great Britain_, vol.
xxviii. pp. 147-156).
P. 133. =Villany Rewarded.= From the Pepys collection (ii. 99). A
broadside printed for Charles Barnes, 1696. See _The Trial of Joseph
Dawson &c. for several Piracies and Robberies by them committed in
company of Every the Grand Pirate_: London, 1696, folio. The six
accused were all condemned and hanged at Execution Dock, November 25,
1696.
P. 134. =Captain Kid’s Farewell.= This ballad is reprinted, for the
first time, from the unique example in the collection of Lord Crawford.
The trial of William Kid (or Kidd), which took place in 1701, is
contained in volume xiv. of the _State Trials_, p. 123. The ballad
follows the trial pretty closely. One indictment against Kid was for
the murder of his gunner, William Moore. The dialogue which caused the
assault is thus related. Captain Kid called Moore ‘a lousy dog.’ ‘Says
William Moore, “If I am a lousy dog, you have made me so; you have
brought me to ruin, and many more.” Upon his saying this, says Captain
Kid, “Have I ruined you, ye dog?” and took a bucket bound with iron
hoops and struck him on the right side of the head, of which he died
next day.’ Another indictment was for the capture of a merchant ship
called The Quedagh Merchant, bound from Bengal to Surat, the property
of certain Armenian merchants and Moors, but commanded by an Englishman
(see verse 7). This was in January 1698. About June 1696 Kid had taken
on his voyage to New York ‘a French banker,’ as a witness calls it,
_i.e._ a French fishing-ship bound for Newfoundland (see verse 8). At
Babs Key or Bobs Key, ‘a small island at the entrance of the Red Sea,’
Kid projected an attack upon ‘the Mocca fleet,’ fourteen or fifteen
merchantmen of various nationalities, but found them too strong for him
(verse 9).
Captain Culliford (mentioned in verse 15) was a notorious pirate,
commander of the Resolution, formerly the Mocca frigate, whom Kid met
at Madagascar. When they met, Culliford thought Kid had come to arrest
him. But they became friends at once. ‘And on the quarter-deck they
made some bomboo and drank together; and Captain Kid said, “Before
I would do you any harm I would have my soul fry in hell fire,” and
wished damnation to himself several times if he did’ (_State Trials_,
xiv. 153, 167). In the report of the trial Culliford is described as
now in custody, and he probably followed Kid to the gallows.
Kid was executed May 23, 1701.
On his case see also _A full Account of the Proceedings in relation to
Capt. Kidd_, in _A Collection of State Trials, published during the
Reign of King William III._, vol. iii. p. 230.
A fragment of a traditional version of this ballad is given in
Masefield’s _A Sailor’s Garland_, p. 17.
P. 137. =A Satyr on the Sea Officers.= Printed in the _Miscellaneous
Works_ of George Duke of Buckingham, i. p. 90, 1704. Probably written
about 1691. The players were at Oxford in July 1691 (_Cal. S. P. Dom._,
1690-1, p. 430).
P. 140. =The Sea Martyrs.= From the Pepys collection (v. 375). The
broadside has no printer’s name or date. Probably written about January
1691. Luttrell notes, about the middle of December 1690, that ‘some
seamen belonging to the Suffolk man-of-war, having mutinied for want
of their pay, are secured and sent to the Marshalsea in order to their
trial’ (_Diary_, ii. 144.)
P. 143. =Advice to Young Maidens.= From _The Hampshire Garland_ in the
Douce collection in the Bodleian Library.
P. 145. =The Seamen’s Wives’ Vindication.= From the Pepys collection
(iv. 185). A broadside printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Giltspur
Street.
P. 146. =Billy the Midshipman’s Welcome Home.= _Bagford Ballads_, i.
112. From the _Midshipman’s Garland_, published about the beginning of
Queen Anne’s reign. The tune is given in _Pills to Purge Melancholy_,
v. 301.
P. 148. =Admiral Benbow.= Printed in Halliwell’s _Early Naval Ballads_,
p. 38. A slightly different version is given in Ashton’s _Real Sailor
Songs_, p. 19*. A chapbook dated 1784, entitled _Four Excellent New
Songs_, in the Bodleian Library (Douce S. 370) seems to be the earliest
printed version. From it, with the omission of three or four words,
the stanza about Captain Crosbie, which is not in Halliwell’s version,
has been added. A slipsong printed by Jennings, Water Lane, Fleet
Street, about the beginning of the nineteenth century, gives the verse
thus:
‘And there Captain Kirby proved a coward at last,
And with Wade played at bo-peep behind the main-mast;
And there they did stand, boys, and quiver and shake,
For fear those French dogs their lives should take.’
This was originally a much longer ballad: in the Jennings and Douce
versions there are many variants and some additional lines. The third
and fourth stanzas in the former run as follows:
‘We took our leave of them, and made quick dispatch,
And we steered our course to the island of Vache;
And turning to the windward as near as we could lie,
On the 14th of August ten sail we did espy.
‘They hoisted their pendants and their colours spread,
And they hoisted their bloody flag at the topmast head;
Then we hoisted our jack flag at the mizen peak,
And so brought up our squadron in a line most complete.’
The Douce version has this fourth stanza in slightly different words,
but omits the third. It reads ‘chance shot’ instead of ‘chain shot.’ No
good text can be put together till some older and more authoritative
edition of the ballad is discovered. For the tune, see Chappell’s _Old
English Popular Music_, ii. 92, and also Sharpe’s _Folk Songs from
Somerset_, No. 73.
Historically the first line of the ballad is incorrect. Benbow sailed
first to Barbadoes and thence to Port Royal (see Clowes, ii. 368). As
to the details of the engagement, the account of the court-martial
on Benbow’s captains is printed in _State Trials_, xiv. 538-546. The
fight was August 19-24, 1702; the trial, October 8-12, 1702. Benbow
was wounded at three in the morning of August 24, ‘his right leg being
broke, but commanded the fight to be vigorously maintained,’ after
which, says the report, he ‘lay wounded in a cradle.’
Crosbie in verse 6 should be Kirkby. Captain Richard Kirkby, commander
of the Defiance, was sentenced to be shot. In the report it is alleged
‘that during the six days’ engagement he never encouraged his men; but
by his own example of dodging behind the mizen-mast, and falling down
upon the deck on the noise of shot ... the said men were under great
discouragement.’
P. 149. =The Death of Admiral Benbow.= Printed by Halliwell, _Early
Naval Ballads_, ‘from a broadside printed at Salisbury by Fowler,
a noted ballad printer of the last century.’ A chapbook printed at
Edinburgh in 1823 supplies some variants in verses 1-7, and adds verses
8-10. Some of these variants have been adopted in the text, especially
in verses 4 and 7, where they supply the rhymes missing in Halliwell’s
version. The three verses given in brackets are evidently a later
addition.
In verse 4 ‘Noah’s Ark’ is perhaps a nickname, but more probably a
corruption of the name of Benbow’s flagship, the Breda. In the report
of the trial it is called throughout the ‘Bredah,’ and the accentuation
of the last syllable would account for the appearance of ‘Ark.’ No
doubt the line originally ran ‘’Twas the Ruby and Bredah.’
For the tune see Chappell, _Old English Popular Music_, ii. 94.
P. 151. =Sailor’s Account of the Action at Vigo.= From the collection
of the Earl of Crawford. A broadside printed by Sam. Farley of Exeter.
P. 153. =On the Sea Fight between Sir G. R. and Toulouse.= _Poems on
Affairs of State_, ed. 1716, iii. 112.
P. 153. =A Song on the Same.= _Ib._, p. 113.
P. 154. =The Sailor’s Tragedy.= From the Douce collection in the
Bodleian Library (_The Sea-faring Garland_: Douce P. P. 183).
P. 156. =The Valiant Admiral.= _Ib._
P. 158. =The Sea-Fight, or the French Prize taken.= From _The Diverting
Muse, or the Universal Medley_, part vi., 1707.
P. 159. =The Dismal Lamentation, &c.= From the Douce collection in the
Bodleian Library (_The New Portsmouth and Spithead Garland_: Douce P.
P. 183). On the accident see Clowes ii. 529.
P. 162. =The Sailor’s Complaint.= Text from a volume of songs called
_The Nightingale_, printed in 1738. A nineteenth-century version from
a broadside is given in Ashton’s _Real Sailor Songs_, p. 65*. For the
tune see Chappell, _Old English Popular Music_, ed. Wooldridge, ii. 165.
P. 163. =Fair Sally.= Text from _A Collection of Diverting Songs_,
published about 1740, p. 217. Another version, which substitutes
‘seaman’ for ‘sailor,’ may be found at p. 174 of the collection called
_The Lark_, published in 1740, and also in Ashton’s _Real Sailor
Songs_, p. 63.
P. 164. ‘=How Pleasant a Sailor’s Life Passes.=’ From _A Collection
of Diverting Songs_. Also in Ramsay’s _Tea Table Miscellany_, p. 168,
where it is entitled _The Sailor’s Rant_.
P. 165. =The Boatswain’s Whistle.= From the collection entitled _The
Lark_, 1740, p. 25. In this version line 4 of the chorus runs ‘My boy,
let us stir, let us toil,’ but Smollett’s reading has been adopted as
preferable. I have not been able to find a copy of the original or the
date of its publication.
P. 166. =The Downfall of Piracy.= From _The Worcestershire Garland_ in
the British Museum (pressmark, 11621. c. 4 [89]). Reprinted by Ashton,
_Real Sailor Songs_, p. 7.
P. 168. =Admiral Cavendish’s Distress on Board the Canterbury.= The
Canterbury was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Philip Cavendish from July
16, 1728, to January 24, 1730-31. She sailed from Spithead on September
18, 1728, and arrived at Gibraltar on the afternoon of October 14. The
log of the Canterbury thus describes the storm. ‘Monday, September
23.--About 11 this forenoon we were taken with a violent squall out
of the N. W., which carried away our mizen mast and split the main
topsail. In this squall we lost sight of the Romney. 24.--For the
most part strong gales of wind with violent squalls. Yesterday in the
afternoon we lowered down our fore and main yards and got the sails
reefed and furled and cut away the main topsail yard, sail and all,
as it was split. About nine last night we lost our mainmast, and soon
after the foremast, which fell to windward, and took away our best
bower anchor stock. In the fall of the mast it stave both barge and
pinnace (which we hove overboard) and fell on the outer part of one of
our quarterdeck guns, which it carried away overboard with it. Also
we likewise lost our two lower stunsail booms. In this disaster we
lost seven of our men, and had one man’s thigh broke, and another very
much bruised.’ The name of the purser referred to in the last verse
was Walter Harris. There are two later versions of this ballad in the
Madden collection. One is called _The Sailor’s Lamentation_, and is
dated in ink ‘1736, Dec. 23’ (_Slipsongs_, iii. 92, No. 1661). The
other, printed later still, is called _A New Sea Song_ (_Slipsongs_,
ii. 264, No. 1260). A version in the editor’s possession, dated in
pencil ‘1728,’ has been made the basis of the text adopted, with one or
two corrections supplied by the Madden versions.
P. 170. =The Pacifick Fleet.= From a folio pamphlet in the Bodleian
Library, dated 1729 (_Godw. Pamph._ 1667 [19]).
P. 172. =The English Sailor’s Resolution.= From the Madden collection
(_Slipsongs_, i. 254, No. 535).
P. 174. =England’s Glory in the Declaration of War.= From a broadside
in the possession of the editor.
P. 175. =The Taking of the Princissa.= From the Madden collection
(_Slipsongs_, iii. 148, No. 1781). The original prints ‘Orphan,’
instead of ‘Orford,’ and in verse 3, line 2, ‘with courageous skill.’
P. 177. =English Courage Displayed.= From the Madden collection
(_Slipsongs_, i. 252, No. 531). For the tune, see Chappell’s _Old
English Popular Music_, p. 109. Vernon’s popularity is further attested
by two little songbooks--_Vernon’s Glory, containing 15 New Songs
occasioned by the taking of Porto-Bello and Fort Chagre_. London:
printed by W. Webb, 1740, price sixpence. _Vernon’s Glory_, Part II.,
sold by the same publisher, contains not only new songs on the exploits
mentioned, but also others on the admiral’s birthday. As, for instance:
‘Freeborn Britons, fill your glasses,
Give this day to generous mirth;
For the circling bumper passes
To your Vernon’s happy birth.’