Citation - New York Gazette & Weekly Post Boy: 1756.10.04

NYGWPB.756.033
4 Oct 1756:11 (716)
A LATE EPISTLE TO MR. C---D.
The better part of valour is discretion, in which better
part, I have sav'd my life.  [signed] Shakespeare.
Dear Sir, 'tis with pleasure the following I write.
And hope you'll impute my mistakes to my fright.
On the eighth day of May we set sail for Mahon,
Where we fear'd we should get (as the wind blew) too soon,
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