Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 3 (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

Here, once again, we will ask the reader to take our arm and stroll away from plain prose into the pleasant path of poetry, by presenting him with a Chant of the Ring about—

NICK WARD AND CAUNT.

Hurrah for the Ring and the bunch of fives!

Like a giant refreshed the Ring revives,

It awakens again to vigorous life

To scare the assassin and crush the knife;

Then welcome to earth as the flowers in spring

Be the glory renew’d of the Boxing Ring,

And over each British boxer brave,

Long may the banner of fair play wave.