The Merites of
PIRACIE
OR,
A new Song on Captain Green and his bloody
CRUE:
To the Tune of, My Virgin Treasure.
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OF all the pirates Ive heard or seen,
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The basest and Bloodiest is Captain Green,
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To treat our Merchant Ships at such a rate,
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After Robbery, his Crime to aggravate,
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Under pretence of setting them a shoar:
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Our Merchant Men them to devore.
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Which clearly is proven to be very true,
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He deserves to be hangd & all his Crue:
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How great was GODs providence in discovering
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This odious Murther, and it to Light bring!
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By a Villian pretended to marry a Lass,
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That Lives in Burntisland, if it had come to pass
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That he had obtained her to be his Bride,
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We should never known what did Drummond betid[e]
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As he was from Indies returning home,
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Whom Green basly murthered, when to Malabra come;
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This villian John Hynds, who at first did discover,
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Deserves to be hanged, for example to other
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Such Villians hereafter to deny what they say;
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once out of reveange, then with both hands to play
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And as for John Madder, who ought to have rather
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Preserved his Country, he deserves a Tadder;
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And that is too too little if he get his due:
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Hes the Bloodiest Villian of all the Crue.
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No Murther and Robbery was ever more clear
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Made evident, than this as doth now appear,
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By their own Declaration after Sentence given,
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Fearing to be debarred from Heaven
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If they die so hard hearted as not to confess,
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Or if by confessing they may have redress:
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Which if they obtain, theyl fall to a new,
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To Robe, to murther, then hang all the base Crue.
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Except the Chirurgion, the Cook and the Black,
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That yet remains of that Bloody pack:
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Because ingenious they were in their Narrations
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And constant were to their first Declaration,
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But for all the rest of so cruel a Crue,
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Hanging is too little if they get their due,
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And more especially Madder and Hynds
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should be hangd, drawn, quarterd, hung in chains!
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Let this to all hellish Villians hereafter prove.
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A warning from falling into such crimes, least Jove
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Pursue them with vengeance as he hath done Green
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And his Bloody Crue, whose practise has been,
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Of a long time to live by Piracie,
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and Murther, which we sufficiently see;
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To be most clear and evidently proven
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Let Green and his Crue to the Gallows be drive[n.]
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