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Captain and the.

OME all ye lofty ſailors,

that lives by tuck of drum,

I'll tell you of a robber

now on the ſeas is come;

His name is called Captain Ward,

as you the truth ſhall hear,

For there has not been ſuch a robber,

this hundred and fifty year.

Firſt he beguild the wild Turk,

and then the king of Spain,

Pray, how can he prove true to us,

when he prov'd flalſe to them?

He wrote a letter to the king,

on the fifteen of July,

To ſee if he would accept of him,

and all his company;

To ſee if he would accept of him,

and all his jolly ſailors bold,

And for a ranſom he would give

two thouſand pounds in gold.

O no, O no, then ſaid the king,

for no ſuch thing ſhall be;

For he has been a robber,

and a robber on the ſea.