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Launched off the stocks, bound to the main, With a hundred and fifty brisk young men, Was pick'd and chosen every one.


 * William Glen was their captains name,

He was a brisk and a tall young man, As bold a sailor as went to sea, And he was bound for New Barbary,


 * The first of April we did set sail,

Blest with a pleasant and prosp'rous gale; For we were bound to New Barbary, With all our whole ship's company.


 * We had not sailed a league but two,

Till all our whole ship's 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. Tomorrow's night you must lodge with me