The courtier’s more subject to dangers, Who rules at the helm of the State, Than we that, to politicks strangers, Escape the snares laid for the great. The various blessings of nature In various nations we try. No mortals than us can be greater, Who merrily live till we die. _THE BOATSWAIN’S WHISTLE._ Life is chequer’d--toil and pleasure Fill up all the various measure. See the crew in flannel jerkins Drinking, toping flip by firkins; And as they raise the tip To their happy lip, On the deck is heard no other sound, But prithee Jack, Prithee Dick, Prithee Sam, Prithee Tom, Let the can go round. _Chorus._ _Then hark to the Boatswain’s whistle, whistle! Then hark to the Boatswain’s whistle, whistle! Bustle, bustle, brave boys, Let us sing, let us toil, But let’s drink all the while, For labour’s the price of our joys, For labour’s the price of our joys._ Life is chequer’d--toil and pleasure Fill up all the various measure: Hark! the crew with sun-burnt faces, Chanting Black-ey’d Susan’s graces; And as they raise their notes Thro’ their rusty throats On the deck is heard no other sound, But prithee Jack, prithee Dick, Prithee Sam, prithee Tom, Let the can go round. _Then hark, etc._ Life is chequer’d--toil and pleasure Fill up all the various measure. Hark! the crew their cares discarding With huffe-cap or with chuck-farthing: Still in merry pin Let ’em lose or win, On the deck is heard no other sound But prithee Jack, prithee Dick, Prithee Sam, prithee Tom, Let the can go round. _Then hark, etc._ _THE DOWNFALL OF PIRACY._ Being a full and true account of a desperate and bloody sea-fight between Lieutenant Maynard and that noted pirate Captain Teach, commonly call’d by the name of Black-beard; Maynard had fifty men, thirty-five of which where kill’d and wounded in the action: Teach had twenty-one, most of which was kill’d and the rest carried to Virginia in order to take their tryal. Will you hear of a bloody battle, lately fought upon the seas? It will make your ears to rattle and your admiration cease: Have you heard of Teach the rover, and his knavery on the main; How of gold he was a lover, how he lov’d ill-got [ten] gain? When the Act of Grace appeared Captain Teach and all his men Unto Carolina steered, where they us’d him kindly then; There he marry’d to a lady, and gave her five hundred pound, But to her he prov’d unsteady, for he soon march’d off the ground.