=A.= ‘The Sweet Trinity,’ a ship built by Sir Walter Raleigh, has been taken by a galley of a nationality not specified. The master of some English ship asks what seaman will take the galley and redeem The Sweet Trinity. A ship-boy asks what the reward shall be; the reward shall be gold and fee, and the master’s eldest daughter. The ship-boy, who is possessed of an auger which bores fifteen holes at once, swims to the galley, sinks her, and releases The Sweet Trinity; then swims back to his ship and demands his pay. The master will give gold and fee, but not his daughter to wife. The ship-boy says, Farewell, since you are not so good as your word. =B.= No ship has been taken by an enemy. The Golden Vanity, Golden Victorie, =e=, falls in with a French galley, which a cabin-boy undertakes to sink for a reward. The reward is to be, =a=, =b=, an estate in the North Country; =c=, half the captain’s lands in the South Country, meat and fee, and the captain’s eldest daughter; =e=, gold and fee, and the captain’s daughter. The boy is rolled up in a bull-skin and thrown over the deck-board (a corruption, see =C=). He takes out an instrument, and bores thirty holes at twice, =a=; a gimlet, and bores sixty holes and thrice, =b=; he struck her with an instrument, bored thirty holes at twice, =c=; threescore holes he scuttled in a trice, =d=; struck her wi an auger, thirty three and thrice, =e=. After sinking the galley he calls to the Golden Vanity to throw him a rope, take him on board, and be as good as their word, all which is refused. He threatens to serve them as he has the galley, =a=, =b=, =d=; they take him up and prove better than their word, =a=, =d=, or as good, =b=. (Of =f= very little was remembered by Scott, and the ballad was besides confounded with ‘The George Aloe.’[102]) =C.= The distinguishing feature is that the boy dies after he is taken up from the water, and is sewed up in a cow’s hide and thrown overboard, ‘to go down with the tide.’ The Golden Vanity, =a-d=, The Gold Pinnatree, =e=, The Golden Trinitie, =g=, is in danger from a Turkish galleon, =a=, =f=, =g=, a Spanish, =b=, =c= (pirate Targalley), =d=, French, =e=. The captain of the English ship promises the cabin-boy gold, fee, and daughter, if he will sink the enemy. The boy has, and uses, an auger, to bore two holes at twice, =a=, that bores twenty holes in twice, =b=, to bore two holes at once, =c=; a case of instruments, ca’s fifty holes and drives them a’ at once, =e=; an instrument, and bores nine holes in her water-sluice, =f=; an auger fitted for the use, and bores in her bottom a watery sluice, =g=. The master will not take him on board, will kill him, shoot him, sink him, =a-d=; will not keep his bargain, ‘for as you’ve done to her, so would you do to me,’ =e= (compare the threat in =B= 13). The boy is taken up by his mess-mates and dies on the deck, =a=, =c=, =d=; is sewed in a cow-hide and thrown overboard, =a=, =c-g=; in =b= sinks from exhaustion and drowns. A