“Oh, yes, he’s only a Democrat, his blood is hardly blue,
Oh, Sacre Nom de Dieu! Sapristi! Eet is true!
But he’s a jolly tar dog, with dirk and pistol, too,
He fights like William the Conqueror, he fights!
Egad! that’s true!
A health to Rénee the terrible; soldier and sailor too.”
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EDWARD ENGLAND
TERROR OF THE SOUTH SEAS
(1690?-about 1725)
“A Privateer’s not a Buccaneer, but they’re pretty chummy friends,
One flies a reg’lar ensign, there’s nothing that offends.
One sails ’neath Letters Legal, t’other ’neath Cross-Bones,
But, both will sink you, Sailor, or my name’s not Davy Jones.”
—Old Ballad.