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CAPTAIN GLEN'S Unhappy VOYAGE
to New Barbary.
THERE was a ſhip and a ſhip of fame,
launch'd of the ſtocks bound to the main,
With a hundred and fifty briſk young men,
was pick'd and choſen every one.
William Glen was our Captain's name,
he was a tall and a briſk young man,
As bold a ſailor as e'er went to ſea,
and he was bound to New Barbary.
The firſt of April when he ſet ſail,
bleſt with a ſweet and proſp'rous gale,
we were bound to New Barbary,
with all our whole ſhips company
had not ſailed a day but two,
till all our whole ſhip's jovial-crew,
ey all fell ſick but ſixty-three,
we went to New Barbray.
night the Captain he did dream,
There came a voice which ſaid to him,
pare you and your company,
to-morrows night you muſt lodge with me.
is wak'd the Captain in a fright.
eing the third watch of the night:
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| Description | 'Captain Glen's unhappy voyage to New Barbary'. |
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| Description | "Called Captain Glen. To which are added, The death of the King and Queen of France. Sweet Poll of Plymouth. Wandering sailor." |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2900(20) |
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| Description | Collection of 78 Scottish chapbooks recounting events from the late 1790s to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Cheap print booklets mostly containing ballads about the military conflicts. Also give insights into contemporary views of Napoleon Bonaparte, Josephine de Beauharnais, Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington. |
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