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

The rust of time I’ll shake.

Your youthful bloods to quicken

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.

Valete ac plaudite: The curtain has fallen!

Wood Green. H. D. M.

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