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With Rodney, with Digby, with Rofs 1 will go, And die but I'll conquer each infolent foe ; The Tritons reported th<twords. that he faid, And Spain heard the plaudit by Neptune then paid. He's royal, he's noble, and chofen by me, Briton's Ifle to protect, and reign prince of the fea.

The Dons they have felt the effects of his rage,

No more with blood- royal they dare to engage ;

-For he flood on the deck with his naked dra*vn fword,

And by the bold Digby he palled the word :

Humanity touch'd him, tho' not with bafe fear,

When one noble fhip was blown up in the air ;'

His courage gives rapture to each jolly tar,

Who look on Prince William their bulwark in war.

He's royal, he's noble, and chofen to be

The guard of this ifle, and the prince of the fea.

��HEARTS OF OAK.

COME cheer up my lads ! 'tis to glory we fleer, To add fpmething new to this wonderful year, To honour we call you, not prefs you like flaves, For who are fo free as" the fons of the waves ?

Hearts of oak are our mips, hearts of oak are our men,

We always are ready, Steady, boys, fteady, We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.

We ne'er fee our foes but we wifli them to flay, They never fee us but they wifh us away, If they run, why we follow, and run them afhore, For if they won't fight us, what can we do more.

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