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AWM.738.028
14-21 Sep 1738:22 (977)
London. June 18. . . The romantick story from Bengal of the
alligator making a meal of three sailors on board a French
ship that was lost in the late hurricane, has engross'd the
conversation of almost all the whole town. . . [8 lines,
conversation at one of the most eminent Coffee-houses turned
to a] sprightly young gentleman, who casually dropt in at
that time, his sentiments of the tale: To which he merrily
answer'd, he look'd upon the writer to be an ill natured
fellow, he envied the author of our old English ballad, Moor
of Moor Hall, his terrible description of the Dragon of
Wantley in the following lines.
Devoured he
Poor children three,
That could not with him grapple,
And at a sup
He eat them up,
As a man would eat an apple.
. . . [7 more lines in report.]
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