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T145660 1 My Virgins Treasure UNKNOWN My Virgin's Treasure OF all the pirates I've heard or seen, / The basest and Bloodiest is Captain Green. Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 609 The Merites of / PIRACIE / OR, / A new Song on Captain Green and his bloody / CRUE. ?-?

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OF all the pirates Ive heard or seen, The basest and Bloodiest is Captain Green, To treat our Merchant Ships at such a rate, After Robbery, his Crime to aggravate, Under pretence of setting them a shoar: Our Merchant Men them to devore. Which clearly is proven to be very true, He deserves to be hangd & all his Crue: How great was GODs providence in discovering This odious Murther, and it to Light bring! By a Villian pretended to marry a Lass, That Lives in Burntisland, if it had come to pass That he had obtained her to be his Bride, We should never known what did Drummond betid[e] As he was from Indies returning home, Whom Green basly murthered, when to Malabra come; This villian John Hynds, who at first did discover, Deserves to be hanged, for example to other Such Villians hereafter to deny what they say; once out of reveange, then with both hands to play And as for John Madder, who ought to have rather Preserved his Country, he deserves a Tadder; And that is too too little if he get his due: Hes the Bloodiest Villian of all the Crue.
No Murther and Robbery was ever more clear Made evident, than this as doth now appear, By their own Declaration after Sentence given, Fearing to be debarred from Heaven If they die so hard hearted as not to confess, Or if by confessing they may have redress: Which if they obtain, theyl fall to a new, To Robe, to murther, then hang all the base Crue. Except the Chirurgion, the Cook and the Black, That yet remains of that Bloody pack: Because ingenious they were in their Narrations And constant were to their first Declaration, But for all the rest of so cruel a Crue, Hanging is too little if they get their due, And more especially Madder and Hynds should be hangd, drawn, quarterd, hung in chains! Let this to all hellish Villians hereafter prove. A warning from falling into such crimes, least Jove Pursue them with vengeance as he hath done Green And his Bloody Crue, whose practise has been, Of a long time to live by Piracie, and Murther, which we sufficiently see; To be most clear and evidently proven Let Green and his Crue to the Gallows be drive[n.]
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