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Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry by Edmund Goldsmid
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_Which_, etc.


VIII.

But R---- the C---- C---- R---- is chose
His fine self and his Fleet to the Sea to expose,
But he'll have a care how he meets with his Foes,
_Which_, etc.

IX.

He had Sea-Colonels of the Nature of Otter,
Which either might serve by Land or by Water,
But of what they have done we have heard no great matter,
_Which_, etc.

X.

In the month of _May_ last they sail'd on the Main,
And now in _September_ they come back again
With the loss of some ships, but in Battle none slain,
_Which_, etc.

[Footnote 12: Probably George, Viscount Torrington, First Lord of the
Admiralty in 1727.]




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