Two Suffolk Friends

piece

tique song we h

h Night,

ue" song, whose hero may have been one of the sea captains or rovers who continued their privateering in the Spanish Main and elsewhere, and upon all comers, long after all licence from the Crown had ceased. The Rainbow was the name of one of the ships which formed the English f

ct

ye valia

to follow

meet with

the sea

as big

you di

h'ard of s

a hundr

hree ships

Indies to

with silks

ets of t

hey meet but

g a bad

hem of all

go tell

o ye home," say

your Kin

King of th

e King a

ese three ga

down of

o the Kin

at sea w

e did prep

of gall

d the galla

niver hea

as well

a ship c

ee hundred

r her

he gallan

ere the r

e captain of

ant Rain

," says Ca

e I nev

be the King

lcome to

e of the King

to your gr

e I unders

he rogue

m I," says

you not

bright br

e steel

clock o' t

begin t

hey did

e or ten

ain Ward u

what sha

got one sh

get ove

ight you on," sa

rt will p

ight for a m

ster I

the galla

ng down o

re lay proud

e he mus

ake and Ca

d Lord

one of th

ng proud W

two famous Pirates, Captain Ward and Danseker' (Lond. 1609, 4to), and by Richard Daburn's 'A Christian turn'd Turke, or the

k there was the

inted for F. Coles, and another with printer's name cut off in the same volume, fol. 654; an edition in the Pepys Collection, v. 4, fol. 202, by Clarke Thackeray and Passinger; two in the Bayford, [643, m. 9 / 65] and [643, m. 10 / 78]. These are by W. Onbey, and the second in white let

folk N. and Q.,' though at the same time there are slight resemblances in expression. As ballads they are quite distinct. I supp

ldis

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