By your Honour's Command, an Example I stand
| First Line | By your Honour's Command, an Example I stand |
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| Date | 1728 |
| Description | Extempore [Humour]. Transcribed from "Addressing himself to the Captain." Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, issue 162, 29 June 1728, p. 2. Burney Newspapers Collection, GALE|Z2001592139. |
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Transcription
By your Honour's Command, an Example I stand,
Of your Anger to all the Ship's Crew;
I'm hamper'd and stripp'd, and if I am whipp'd,
By the Mess, 'tis no more than my Due.
In this scurvy Condition, I humbly petition
To offer one Line to your Eye,
Merry Tom, by such Trash, avoided the Lash,
If Fate, and you please, so may I.
There's nothing you hate, I'm inform'd like a Cat,
Why your Honour's Aversion is mine.
If then, Puss with one Tail can make your Heart fail,
Oh! save me from this that has nine.
Beinecke Osborn c536
| Title | Arabella Browne Her Booke Annoque Dom 1728 |
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| Period | 1701-1730 |
| Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |
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Local title: Addressing himself to the captain.
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Bodleian MS Eng. poet. c. 9
| Title | Miscellanies |
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| Period | 1731-1760 |
| Archive | Bodleian Library |
p. 233
Local title: Upon a cat of nine-tails.
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Leeds Brotherton Lt 35
| Title | Untitled |
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| Period | 1701-1730 , 1731-1760 |
| Archive | Brotherton Library |
pp. 81–82
Local title: A sailor on board the Tartar man of war at Virginia commanded by Captain Vincent Price having committed a misdemeanour, & being order'd to be brought down to the gangway to be whipt, spoke the following verses extempore, on which his punishment was remitt.
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Leeds Brotherton Lt 99
| Title | Old Songs & other Poems. |
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| Period | 1761-1790 |
| Archive | Brotherton Library |
f. 75r
Local title: Verses written by a Sailor in the Tartar who was sentenc'd to a cat and nine tails. Addressed to the Captain.
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