“He quarters now,” said Barton,

“At Overton’s,[6] the Friend’s,

Whose house is by the bay-road nigh

Where by the bay it bends.

“The roads are block’d by soldiers;

We cannot reach him thus.

What then?—A way across the bay

May yet remain for us.

“I know three frigates guard it.[7]

But when, some moonless night,