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BG.743.012
30 Aug 1743:11,12 (1122)
From the Daily Advertiser, June 3. 1743. We are persuaded
that the following poetical narrative will afford an
agreeable entertainment to the town;. . . [1 line] that it
was drawn up from the relation at large, which the subject
of it gave a few days before his murder, to the author of
this poem.
THE SUFFERINGS OF LEWIS LEGER,
who was lately kill'd in a fray at an inn, (himself being
suppos'd to speak) late cook to Commodore Anson.
To said to distant shores, my wish, my vow,
Call'd by brave Anson, I the ocean plough.
With him, beneath the torrid zone I flew;
And with delight, its glowing prospects view:
. . . [total 2 cols.]
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