Now gallant Seamen I bid you all adieu,
With hey, &c.
This is the last Newes I can write to you,
To England’s Coast from Barbarye.
FOOTNOTES:
[1154] swads = peascods, a cant term for soldiers.
[132. The ‘Golden Vanity’]
I
A ship I have got in the North Country
And she goes by the name of the Golden Vanity,
O I fear she’ll be taken by a Spanish Ga-la-lee,
As she sails by the Low-lands low.
II
To the Captain then upspake the little Cabin-boy,
He said, ‘What is my fee, if the galley I destroy?
The Spanish Ga-la-lee, if no more it shall anoy,
As you sail by the Low-lands low.’