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

While the coward, grim Death, we must blame,

For if in the morn he to Shepperton went,

He feared Fletcher’s true science and game.

“Then repose to his ashes, soft rest to his soul,

For harmless was he through life’s span,

With the friend of his bosom, enjoying the bowl,

And wishing no evil to man.”

“February, 1807.”

[108]. “Recollections of an Octogenarian,” 8vo., London, 1812.

[109]. Pierce Egan says, “Seabrook was so completely frightened out of all his conceit, that he almost bolted from the spot.” What that may mean we cannot explain.