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

And your British pluck to wake;

I know it only slumbers,

Let cant do what it will,

The British bull-dog will be

The British bull-dog still.

Then gather to your grandsire’s knee,

The while his tale is told

How Sayerius and Heenanus

Milled in those days of old.

Y Fyghte.