The Roxburghe ballads . 004 a jFarttoell to (fcraaesentK Ben.—Were merry folk, we sailors: we hant mucli to care for. Thus welive at sea : eat biscuit and drink flip ; put on a clean shirt once aquarter—come home, and lie with our landladies once a year : get rid ofa little money ; and then put off with the next fair wind. How dyelike us?—Congreves Love for Love, Act iv. 1695. A .MONG the Bag ford Ballads edited by us in 1877, printed forthe Ballad Society, was one concerning Gravesend, written byLaurence Price. We gave there a List of thirty-eight of his broadsideballads ; seven others added,
The Roxburghe ballads . 004 a jFarttoell to (fcraaesentK Ben.—Were merry folk, we sailors: we hant mucli to care for. Thus welive at sea : eat biscuit and drink flip ; put on a clean shirt once aquarter—come home, and lie with our landladies once a year : get rid ofa little money ; and then put off with the next fair wind. How dyelike us?—Congreves Love for Love, Act iv. 1695. A .MONG the Bag ford Ballads edited by us in 1877, printed forthe Ballad Society, was one concerning Gravesend, written byLaurence Price. We gave there a List of thirty-eight of his broadsideballads ; seven others added, vi. 64 : many of them are reprinted inthe present volume. The title was The Seamans Compass ; or, aDainty New Ditty: composed and pennd, The Deeds of braveSeamen to praise and Commend. To the Tune of, Now the Tyranthas stolen my dearest away (a ballad reprinted in vol. vi. p. 67).The burden of Laurence Prices Seamans Compass was Theresnone but a Seaman shall marry with me. This agrees with the determination of an
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