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5.386 R188003 1 (accurate music on sheet) The Rant; Give Ear to a Frolicsome Ditty I'M a Prize for a Captain to fall on, / my Name it is Sea faring Kate: With a fa la la, &c. tune: see music; tune not specified by name; date from imprint. Pepys 5.386 Rollins (1) VI:153-155; Wing E3828[a]A Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 5: 386 An Excellent New SONG,/ ENTITULED,/ A Hot Engagement/ Between/ A French Privateer, and an English Fire-Ship. An Excellent New SONG, ENTITULED, A Hot Engagement Between A French Privateer, and an English Fire-Ship. An Excellent New Song, Entitled, a Hot Engagement between a French Privateer, and an English Fire-ship. 1/2 sheet folio, 245 x 150 damaged surface, uneven inking, Ms. verso shows through vertical rules 1691 Printed by T. Moore, for S. Green. 1691 T. Moore Weinstein: imprint

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I'M a Prize for a Captain to fall on, my Name it is Sea faring Kate: My Sails they are Top and Top Gallon, a Friggot that's of the First Rate. With a fa la la, etc. A French-Man came lately to Press me, which was not a very hard thing, And swore that he first wou'd embrace me, And Loaden me then for the King, With a fa la la, etc. Last Summer he Saild from the Shannon, and long at an Anchor had red, On his Mid Ship he had a good Cannon, which was all the great Guns that he had. With a fa la la, etc. His Main Yard he hoized, and Steered his Course; and gave me a Broad Side: My Poop and my Starn Port sneered, betwixt the Wind, Water, and Tide. With a fa la la, etc. Still under his Lee I did hover, with all the force I could affo[r]d, But as he had been a rank Rover, he briskly did lay me on Board. With a fa la la, etc. He looked for some hidden Treasure, And fell to his doing of Feats, But found me a Fire-ship of Pleasure, When he enter'd the mouth of the Straits, With a fa la la, etc.
It was a high Tide, and the Weather With an easterly Gale it did blow: Our Frigats were foul of each other, And could not get off, nor ride to, With a fa la la, etc. My Bottom was strongly well planked, My Deck could a Tempest endure, But ne'er was poor Dog in a Blanket So tossed, as was the Monsieur, With a fa la la, etc. No near, than his Course he still steered, and clap'd his hand down to his Sword; But as his Love takle he cleard, I brought down his Main Top by the Board, With a fa la la, etc. Then he feared to burn a Sea-Martyr, for my Gun-Room was all in a Fire, And I blew up my second Deck Quarter, just as he began to retire, With a fa la la, etc. I pepper'd him off the Centre, Monsieur was ne'er serv'd so before; I burn his Main Yard at a venter, So that he will press me no more, With a fa la la, etc. Then Monsieur got off, and was grieved, and cursed the English first Rates, But till then he could never believe it, That Strumbulo lay in the Straits, With a fa ca la, etc.
Printed by T. Moore, for S. Green. 1691.