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Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry by Edmund Goldsmid
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With Frigots and Tenders, and Yatchts that were small,
Went out, and did little or nothing at all,
_Which_, etc.

IV.

260,500 and six Lusty Men,
Had they chanc'd to have met with the _French_ Fleet, oh, then,
As they beat 'em last year, so they'd beat 'em again,
_Which_, etc.

V.

Six thousand great Guns and seventy-eight more,
As good and as great as ever did roar;
It had been the same thing had they all been ashore,
_Which_, etc.

VI.

But T---- [12] now must command them no more;
We try'd of what Mettle he was made of before;
It's safer for him on the Land for to whore,
_Which_, etc.

VII.

For a Bullet perhaps from the loud Cannons Breech,
Which makes no distinction betwixt poor and rich,
Instead of his Dog might have taken his Bitch,
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