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There was a ſhip and a ſlip of fame,

Launch‘d off the ſtocks, bound to the man

With a hundred & fifty brisk young me

Was pick‘d and choſen every one.

William Glen was our Captain’s name

he was a bold and a brisk young man;

as bold a ſailor as e‘er went to ſea,

and he was bound to New Barbary.

The firſt of april we did ſet ſail,

bleſt with a pleaſant and proſperous gale

for we were bound to New Barbary,

with all our whole ſhip‘s company.

We had not failed a league but two,

till all our whole ſhip‘jovial crew

they all fell ſick but ſixty three,

as we went to New Barbary.

One night the Captain he did dream,

there came a voice which ſaid to him,

prepare you and your company,

to-morrow you muſt lodge with m