An Excellent New SONG,
ENTITULED,
A Hot Engagement
Between
A French Privateer, and an English Fire-Ship.
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I'M a Prize for a Captain to fall on,
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my Name it is Sea faring Kate:
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My Sails they are Top and Top Gallon,
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a Friggot that's of the First Rate.
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With a fa la la, etc.
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A French-Man came lately to Press me,
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which was not a very hard thing,
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And swore that he first wou'd embrace me,
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And Loaden me then for the King,
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With a fa la la, etc.
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Last Summer he Saild from the Shannon,
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and long at an Anchor had red,
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On his Mid Ship he had a good Cannon,
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which was all the great Guns that he had.
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With a fa la la, etc.
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His Main Yard he hoized, and Steered
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his Course; and gave me a Broad Side:
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My Poop and my Starn Port sneered,
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betwixt the Wind, Water, and Tide.
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With a fa la la, etc.
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Still under his Lee I did hover,
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with all the force I could affo[r]d,
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But as he had been a rank Rover,
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he briskly did lay me on Board.
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With a fa la la, etc.
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He looked for some hidden Treasure,
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And fell to his doing of Feats,
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But found me a Fire-ship of Pleasure,
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When he enter'd the mouth of the Straits,
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With a fa la la, etc.
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It was a high Tide, and the Weather
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With an easterly Gale it did blow:
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Our Frigats were foul of each other,
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And could not get off, nor ride to,
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With a fa la la, etc.
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My Bottom was strongly well planked,
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My Deck could a Tempest endure,
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But ne'er was poor Dog in a Blanket
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So tossed, as was the Monsieur,
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With a fa la la, etc.
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No near, than his Course he still steered,
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and clap'd his hand down to his Sword;
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But as his Love takle he cleard,
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I brought down his Main Top by the Board,
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With a fa la la, etc.
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Then he feared to burn a Sea-Martyr,
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for my Gun-Room was all in a Fire,
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And I blew up my second Deck Quarter,
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just as he began to retire,
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With a fa la la, etc.
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I pepper'd him off the Centre,
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Monsieur was ne'er serv'd so before;
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I burn his Main Yard at a venter,
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So that he will press me no more,
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With a fa la la, etc.
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Then Monsieur got off, and was grieved,
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and cursed the English first Rates,
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But till then he could never believe it,
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That Strumbulo lay in the Straits,
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With a fa ca la, etc.
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