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No. 183] With ardour like your's we defy France and Spain !
 * Combining with Treason
 * They're deaf to all reason :

Once more let them feel we are Lords of the Main. Lords of the Main — ay, Lords of the Main — The first-born of Neptune are Lords of the Main.

Nor are we alone in the noble career ; The Soldier partakes of the generous flame : To glory he marches, to glory we steer ; Between us we share the rich harvest of fame.
 * Recorded on high,
 * Their names never die,

Of heroes by sea and by land what a train !
 * To the King, then, God bless him !
 * The World shall confess him

'The Lord of those men who are Lords of the Main.' Lords of the Main — ay, Lords of the Main — The Tars of Old England are Lords of the Main.



Salem, 24 September, 1780.

HAT I have as yet said concerning myself was in the justifiable attempt to be extricated ; I am too little accustomed to duplicity to have succeeded.