Bibliography - Mermaid, 1796

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Short Title Mermaid, 1796 
Title Mermaid, The 
Pages 78 
Publisher Harrisson, John 
Location O, Order'd 6/13 TOC 
Date 1796 
Place New York 
Data Place O Harding A 569(3) 
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Sailor's life's a life of woe, A   
With timbers green from childhood's dock   
From aloft the sailor looks around   
Life is chequer'd---toil and pleasure   
Go patter to lubbers and swabs d' ye see   
When Jack parted from me, &c.  10   
What cheer, my dear Poll, &c.  11   
Poor Jack, whose gay heart, &c.  13   
When last honest Jack of whose fate I now sing  15   
I'm a brisk jolly tar, and just going to sea  16   
Two real tars whom duty duty call'd [sic]  18   
Wind was hush'd, the storm was over, The  19   
Tar's a jolly tar, &c., The  20   
If bold and brave thou canst not bear  22   
Avert yon omen gracious Heaven  23   
To ask would you come for to go  24   
Bold Jack the sailor here I come  26   
Jack dances and sings and is always content  26   
While high the foaming surges rise  28   
Would you hear a sad story of woe  29   
I was the pride of all the Thames  30   
Tight lads have I sail'd with, &c.  31   
I sing the hardy seaman's praise  33   
I was d' ye see a waterman  35   
In storms when clouds obscure the sky  37   
Come loose ev'ry sail to the breeze  38   
Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear  38   
When Edward first heard, &c.  39   
Jack Ratlin was the ablest seaman  40   
Moon had clim'd the highest hill, The  41   
When it is night, &c.  42   
Topsail shivers in the wind, The  43   
No topsail shivers in the wind  44   
That girl who fain would chuse a mate  45   
Thus, thus, my boys, &c.  46   
As you mean to sail for the lane of delight [sic]  47   
Wand'ring sailor ploughs the main, The  48   
When Britain first at Heaven's command  49   
Plague of these musty old lubbsrs, A [sic]  50   
I sail'd in the good ship Kitty  51   
While up the shroud the sailors goes [sic]  52   
Blow high, blow low, &c.  53   
Life's like a sea in constant motion  54   
My bonny sailor's won my mind  54   
When my money was gone, &c.  56   
How pleasant a sailor's life passes  57   
While o'er the raging raoring seas  57   
Wind blew hard, the sea run high, The [sic]  58   
When first we heard the boatswain's bray  60   
Wind blew a blast from the Northward, The  61   
'Twas in the good ship Rover  62   
Here's a nice new Bow, Wow  63   
Smiling grog is the sailor's best hope  66   
All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd  67   
Gallant sailor oft you told me  69   
Ben Backstay lov'd the gentle Anna  70   
I sail'd from the Downs in the Nancy  71   
Cease rude Boreas, blusttering railer  72   
I that once was a plough-boy, &c.  76   
For our country when, &c.  77   
Sailor's description of a hunting, The  78   
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