Summary

Virtue & beauty in danger, or, King Edward courting the London virgin…

She served her Captain two twelvemonths and mere,
And at last they did steer from the fair English shore,
We espied a proud Frenchman, failing on the main,
Which caus’d us to hoist up our top-fails again.
Come let us live merry, come let our hearts live,
And now of our enemies let us observe:
We soon overtook them on the ocean so wide,
And the first salutation gave them broadside.
Source: Wikisource

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