Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 1 (of 3) / Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-40, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863

by Henry Downes Miles

(For some are careless of the laurell’d brow,)

But little of thy glory or thy game,

Yet when they learn that thou hast touch’d the ‘chink,’

Some value to thy labours must allow.”

“RANDALL’S FAREWELL TO THE RING.

“Farewell to the ring, where my claret-stained glory

Arose and obscured the ‘prime dons’ with my fame,

I abandon her now, but ‘Pancratia’ thy story

Shall render quite fadeless the ‘Nonpareil’s’ name.

Oh, sad is the heart that can say the ‘deuce take her,’