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BPB.768.002
11 Jan 1768:33 (543)
From the Newport Mercury, of Dec. 17. Please to insert the
following lies, composed by a Negro girl (belonging to a
gentleman in Boston) on the following occasion, viz.
Messers. Hussey and Coffin, as undermentioned, belonging to
Nantucket, being bound from thence to Boston, narrowly
escaped being cast away on Cape Cod, in one of the late
storms; upon their arrival, being at dinner, told of their
narrow escape, this Negro girl at the same time 'tending
table, heard the relation, from which she composed the
following verses.
ON MESSRS. HUSSEY AND COFFIN.
Did fear and danger so perplex your mind,
As made you fearful of the whistling wind?
Was it not Boreas knit his angry brow
Against you? or did consideration bow?
. . . [24 more lines] [signed] Phillis.
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