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<DATE>2008-06-05</DATE>
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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080514.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The Seamans Song of Captain <HI>Ward</HI> the famous Pyrate of the world, and an Engli&s;h man born,</HEAD>
<OPENER>The tune is, <HI>The Kings going to Bulloign,</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>GAllants you mu&s;t under&s;tand,</L>
<L>Captain <HI>Ward</HI> of <HI>England,</HI></L>
<L>a Pyrate and a Rover on the Sea,</L>
<L>O, late a &s;imple Fi&s;herman</L>
<L>In the merry town of <HI>Fever&s;ham,</HI></L>
<L>grows famous in the world now every day</L>
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<LG>
<L>From the Bay of <HI>Plimouth</HI></L>
<L>Sailed he toward the &s;outh,</L>
<L>with many more of courage and of might</L>
<L>Chri&s;tian Princes have but few</L>
<L>Such Seamen, if that be we were true,</L>
<L>and would but for his King &amp; Country fight,</L>
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<L>Lu&s;ty <HI>Ward</HI> adventrou&s;ly;</L>
<L>In the &s;traights of <HI>Barbary</HI></L>
<L>did make the <HI>Turki&s;h</HI> Gallies &s;ore to &s;hake</L>
<L>Bouncing Canons fiery hot,</L>
<L>Spa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">en no<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the <HI>Turks</HI> one jot,</L>
<L>but of their lives great &s;laughter he did make</L>
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<LG>
<L>The Ilanders of <HI>Malta,</HI></L>
<L>With Argo&s;ies upon the Sea,</L>
<L>mo&s;t proudly braved <HI>Ward</HI> unto his face</L>
<L>But &s;oon their pride was overthrown</L>
<L>And their treasures made his own,</L>
<L>and all their men brought to a woful ca&s;e</L>
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<L>The wealthy &s;hips of <HI>Venice</HI></L>
<L>Afforded him great riches</L>
<L>both gold &amp; &s;ilver won he with his &s;word</L>
<L>Stately <HI>Spain</HI> and <HI>Portugal</HI></L>
<L>Again&s;t him dare not bare up &s;ail,</L>
<L>but gave him all the title of a Lord.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Golden &s;eated <HI>Candy</HI></L>
<L>Famous <HI>France and Italy</HI></L>
<L>with all the Countries of the <HI>Ea&s;tern</HI> parts,</L>
<L>If once their Ships his pride with&s;tood</L>
<L>They &s;urely all were cloth'd in blood,</L>
<L>&s;uch cruelty was plac'd within their hearts,</L>
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<L>The riches he hath gained,</L>
<L>And by blood-&s;hed obtained</L>
<L>may well &s;uffice for to maintain a King</L>
<L>His fellows all are valiant Wights</L>
<L>Fit to be made Princes Knights,</L>
<L>but that their lives do ba&s;e di&s;honours bring.</L>
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<L>This wicked gotten treasure,</L>
<L>Doth him but little pleasure,</L>
<L>the land consumes what they have got by &s;ea</L>
<L>In drunkenne&s;&s;e and letchery,</L>
<L>F<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">lthy &s;ins of <HI>Sodomy.</HI></L>
<L>the&s;e evill gotten Goods do wa&s;t away,</L>
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<LG>
<L>Such as live by th&eacute;eving,</L>
<L>Have &s;eldom times good ending,</L>
<L>as by the d&eacute;eds of Captain <HI>Ward</HI> is &s;hown</L>
<L>Being drunk among&s;t his Drabs</L>
<L>His neare&s;t friends he &s;ometimes &s;tabs,</L>
<L>&s;uch wickedne&s;s within his heart is grown</L>
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<LG>
<L>When &s;tormy tempe&s;t ri&s;eth</L>
<L>The causer he de&s;pi&s;eth,</L>
<L>&s;till denies to pay unto the Lord</L>
<L>He feareth neither God nor the Divel,</L>
<L>His d&eacute;eds are bad his thoughts are evil;</L>
<L>his only tru&s;t is &s;till upon his &s;word.</L>
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<L>Men of his own Countrey,</L>
<L>He &s;till abu&s;ed vilely,</L>
<L>&s;ome back to back are ca&s;t into the waves</L>
<L>Some are hewen in pieces &s;mall,</L>
<L>Some are &s;hot again&s;t a wall,</L>
<L>a &s;lender number of their lives he &s;aves</L>
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<L>Of truth it is reported</L>
<L>That he is &s;trongly guarded,</L>
<L>by <HI>Turks</HI> that are not of a good belief,</L>
<L>Wit and rea&s;on tells them</L>
<L>He <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ru&s;teth not his Countrey-men,</L>
<L>but &s;hews the right condition of a thief,</L>
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<LG>
<L>At <HI>Tunis</HI> in <HI>Barbary</HI></L>
<L>Now he buildeth &s;tately,</L>
<L>a gallant Palace and a Royal place,</L>
<L>Decked with delights mo&s;t trim,</L>
<L>Fitter for a Prince then him,</L>
<L>the which at la&s;t will prove to his di&s;grace.</L>
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<LG>
<L>To make the world to wonder,</L>
<L>This Captain is Commander</L>
<L>of four and twenty &s;hips of &s;ail,</L>
<L>To bring in trea&s;ure from the &s;ea,</L>
<L>Into the Markets every day&punc;</L>
<L>the which the Turks do buy up without fail,</L>
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<L>His name and &s;tate &s;o mounteth</L>
<L>The&s;e Countrey men accounteth</L>
<L>him equal to the Nobles of that Land</L>
<L>But the&s;e his honours we &s;hall find</L>
<L>Shortly blown up with the wind,</L>
<L>or prove like letters written in y^e &s;and.</L>
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<TRAILER>Finis.</TRAILER>
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