Six were wounded, ’tis very true;
But poor John Fife got not his due
Recompence, equal to his merit;
For which the poor lad broke his spirit,
He went again back to the sea,
Got a wat’ry tomb, as they tell me.
He was but a Scot, and meanly born,
Had no good speakers, Scots then at scorn.
Now, to ev’ry body, ’tis a wonder,
How that so many liv’d on plunder;