Naval songs
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共 33 段- The best ballad on the defeat of the Spanish Armada is Thoma
- ‘Some the galled ropes with dauby marling bind
- The failures of 1690 and 1691 enhanced the glory of the vict
- In Charles the Second’s time Wycherley in 1677 brought upon
- Three ballads in this selection relate to the general action
- The Shrewsbury formed part of the Channel fleet under Admira
- It afforded opportunities for the more romantic forms of the
- The Seamen’s Victory; or, Admiral Killegrew’s Glorious
- ‘Ffight on, my men,’ sayes Sir Andrew Bartton
- ‘And will not let our merchants’ ships pass, as they did bef
- Sometimes in Neptune’s bosom our ship is tost in waves
- ’Twould make a brave Englishman’s heart leap to see’t,
- This was a most prodigious rap,
- The warning when every castle had got,
- Torrington now must command ’em no more,
- Their admiral did want to be
- Indeed, my dear Molly, the Powers above
- Once no greater joy or pleasure could have come into my mind
- While trumpets they did loudly sound and colours were displa
- A broadside from these French dogs we did receive,
- Our ship being water’d and plenty of good wine,
- Says the carpenter, ‘I have a chest, a chest of very good to
- As for the brags of Washington, we care not a pin;
- Taught by his great example let’s danger defy;
- Both round, grape, and double-head we poured in so fast,
- Soft sigh the winds of Heaven
- The _Chesapeake_ so bold,
- She call’d quickly for a pistol,
- The second part of the ballad was licensed in 1611: the firs
- P. 179. =Hosier’s Ghost.= The version of _Hosier’s Ghost_ gi
- On the action see James, vi. 50; Clowes, vi. 75; Mahan, _Sea
- Harris, Walter, 351
- Vol. VIII. _Naval Accounts and Inventories in the Reign of H