FISHERMEN AND SAILORS.
“I was saying to Jack, as we talk’d t’ other day
About lubbers and snivelling elves,
That if people in life did not steer the right way,
They had nothing to thank but themselves.
Now, when a man’s caught by those mermaids the girls,
With their flattering palaver and smiles;
He runs, while he’s list’ning to their fal de rals,
Bump ashore on the Scilly Isles.”
Tom Dibdin.