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

Cussiccius and Macdonaldus[32]

Upon “the Boy” attend;

Sayerius owns Bruntonius

With Jim Welshius for friend.[33]

And each upon the other now

A curious eye may throw,

And from the seconds’ final rub

In buff at length they show,

And from their corners to the scratch

Move stalwartly and slow.