Full fifty gallant brass pieces, Charged on every side. And yet these gallant shooters, Prevailed not a pin; Though they were brass on the outside, Brave Ward was steel within: "Shoot on, shoot on/' says Captain Ward, "Your sport well pleaseth me, And he that first gives over Shall yield unto the sea. "I never wronged an English ship, But Turk and king of Spain, And the jovial Dutchman, As I met on the main. If I had known your king But one two years before, I would have saved brave Essex life, Whose death did grieve me sore. "Go tell the king of England, Go tell him thus from me, If he reign king of all the land, I will reign king at sea." With that the gallant Rainbow shot, And shot, and shot in vain, And left the rover's company, And returned home again. "Our royal king of England, Your ship's returned again, For Ward's ship is so strong It never will be ta'en." "O Everlasting," said our king, "I have lost jewels three, Which would have gone unto the wars, And brought proud Ward to me." The first was Lord Clifford, Earl of Cumberland; The second was Lord Mountjoy, As you shall understand; The third was brave Essex, From field would never flee, Which would agone unto the seas, And brought proud Ward to me. GREENLAND WHALE FISHERY |We can no longer stay on shore, Since we are so deep in debt; So a voyage to Greenland we will go, Some money for to get--brave boys. Now when we lay at Liverpool, Our good-like ship to man, 'Twas there our names were all wrote down, And were bound for Greenland--brave boys. In eighteen hundred and twenty-four, On March the twenty-third, We hoisted our colours up to our mast-head, And for Greenland bore away--brave boys. But when we came to Greenland, Our good-like ship to moor, O then we wish'd ourselves back again, With our friends upon the shore--brave boys. The boatswain went to the mast-head, With his spy-glass in his hand, "Here's a whale, a whale, a whale," he cried, "And she blows on every spring--brave boys." The Captain on the quarter deck, (A very good man was he), "Overhaul, overhaul, your boat tackle-fall, And launch your boats to sea--brave boys." The boats being launch'd and the hands got in, The whale fishes appeared in view, Resolved was the whole boat's crew To steer where the whale fish blew--brave boys. The whale being struck and the line paid on, She gave a flash with her tail, She capsized the boat and lost five men, Nor did we catch the whale--brave boys. Bad news unto our Captain brought, That we had lost the 'prentice boys; He hearing of the dreadful news, His colours down did haul--brave boys. The losing of this whale, brave boys, Did grieve his heart full sore,