Francis James Child

“ For we have descryed a rover, upon the sea is come;
His name is Captain Ward, right well it doth appear,
There has not been such a rover found out this thousand year.
For he hath sent unto our king, the sixth of January,
Desiring that he might come in, with all his company:
'And if your king will let me come till I my tale have told,
I will bestow for my ransome full thirty tun of gold.'
'O nay! O nay!' then said our king, 'O nay! this may not be,
To yield to such a rover my self will not agree ”