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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30597	The straights voyage, or, St. Davids poem being a description of the most remarkable passages that happened in her first expedition against the Turkes of Argeir, Sir John Harman, commander, Rere-Admiral of His Majesty's fleet, beginning May 1669, ending April 1671 / by John Baltharpe, belonging to the foresaid ship.	Baltharpe, John.	1671 (1671)	Wing B610; ESTC R16913	40,335	108

Runnegado came on board Likewise one Hollander upon my word They told us they were twice aboard us coming As they under our Quarter then were runing They beg'd a Compass told us Lies Enough of them this will suffice November the twelfth day alone We tied Saint David to a Stone At Messena one Fortnight there Because we wanted wind was fair No soul alive did ever see Such Traffique as on board had we All sorts of things they put to Sale Except it were strong Beer and Ale Silk-stockings Carpets Brande-wine Silk Neckcloaths also very fine Cabidges Carrets Turnips Nuts The last a man may eat from Sluts Lemmons Orenges and good Figs Seracusa Wine also and Eggs. If you no Money had then they 'd Truckar For Brande-wine out of their Jar For Coats that 's torn and very old They Wine or Brande then give would Strange 't was to see such filthy Raggs As they would put into their Baggs With Brande Brande Brande Wino About they march most brave and Fino On twenty seventh of November We forlorn left them I remember With Dartmouth and the Orange we That very day did put to Sea In one weeks time though stormy weather We gained Legorn Port together Upon December the fourth day 'T was when we Anchored there I say Where Frigots two and Merchant-men We at an Anchor did find then The Jearsey and the Garnsey they Were the two Men of War I say The Lewis and the Mary too With other Ships a lusty Crew Some were bound up for the Levant But a fair wind that time they want The Mary and the Lewis down Who very glad were we them found Thursday the eighth day we did see A Fleet of Ships appear from Sea They Newfound-land men were then all The Swallow she was Admiral The Kent she was the other Convoy They brought their Fleet along most bravely They to Legorn brought store of Fish Which ' mongst Italians is good Dish They Prodick did them straight afford By reason of their Fish aboard Of our Comrades we did get Fish Which we do look on as brave Dish For Breakfast Meat with little Oyl This same poor Jack we fry and broyl 'T was salt and relisht well our Liquour I know no Breakfast meat more fitter The Goods here of my Lord Ambassador We now took in cause of the War Likewise three Englishwomen hence we carry To England cause no longer here they 'l tarry But I must needs confess to you The reason of their Travels I don't know Perhaps 't was to convert the Pope For of that Sex the best I hope I forth the womb of woman came Therefore that Sex I will not blame The one is Motherly and staid The other saileth for a Maid But Mistriss Sarah still shall be The handsomest of all the three And shall within my Journal stand A Beauty powerful to command Part of Sir John his Cabin they Have to command on Board alway For they unto the Vulgar sort At no time will make their resort But commonly do closly keep Within their Cabin where they sleep Unless sometimes to take the Air They do resort in weather fair Upon the Quarter-deck so high The wonders of the Seas to spie Also to Prayers they seldom miss They are Religious sure by this Some men of Passion more than wit Will blame these Gentle-women yet Gadders they 'l say they are abroad And will not them good word afford To this Objection now I say Times and Occasions serve they may For women for to pass the Seas Their Minds and Fancies for to please For they the same flesh are and blood As men are made of and as good And as good reason have they may To cross the Seas as some of they I see naught by them but what 's civil Therefore by them I 'le speak no evil This for the womens sake was Pen'd Not them desertless to commend But ' cause the World shall see that I A womans Friend will live and die Not as some Vulgars by conjectures Those in the least are not Protectors Of Ladies Chastities for they More than is truth oft-times will sa● Of me I pray those things do'nt ●n use But those foregoing Lines peruse I hope the words that I heard last On Quarrer-deck some few days past Will also prove from them most true Whom I most kindly bid adue Enough now of these Female Creatures Of their Behaviours and their Features Let 's now some other things peruse I 'le straight ways tell you all the News The Jearsey told to us therefore That She and four good Frigots more Six Sail of Turks had put a shoar Under Cape Sprat as in their stations They watching lay the Turks ships motions Some Hollanders from Sea them chase To the Straights mouth they high apace Whereas I told yea once before The Jearsey and four Sail lay more There was two Ships there of our Squadron Called the Jearsey and Centurian The Hampshire and the Portmouth she Likewise the Foresight did them see All things then fitted and made clear When they did to their sight appear Per force they might to Leeward bear Because the Dutch to Windward were Where our brave Frigots took them up Being glad that night with them to Sup Our Iron Dogs did at them Roar Which made them stand in towards th'shoar But we did tear them whole Planks out Which put them Rogues all to the Rout. Our Captains Five all plaid their parts Like men of stout and valiant Hearts They Tore them you ne're saw the like Being near the shoar they will not strike At two a Clock fore day therefore Their Ships to Rights they ran Ashoar Where fourscore Slaves Christians we take And Freemen of them we did make Two of those Pirat men of War Did force these Slaves to run ashoar One English-man got to Tangeir Which to Cape Sprat is pretty near And out of seventeen Hundred men Said but seven Hundred they did mas●er then We sent our Boats and burnt them all As they ashoar lay both great and small The smallest had got Thirty Guns And was at least Two Hundred Tuns From Thirty unto Fifty they were Gun'd But thanks be unto God now they are burnd And may those Pirats all come to such ends Then theywould gladly be with us good friends They to Mahomet much did trust They cut a Sheep in middle just Hide Head Heart Tail and Horns and all And on Mahomet they did call With conjuring words they on my word Did on both sides throw over-board In time of Fight we them oppress They help besought in their distress But he asleep I think was then For he wont hearken to these men Or else some business great he had to do No ear he gave to his heathen Crew They which escaped with their Lives Taffeleta made as bad as Slaves Because Argeir took Guylands part He vow'd for that he 'd make them smart For he and Guyland were great Foes And oft-times had exchanged