3. In Prais of Seafaringe Men

4. Another of Seafardingers

5. I rue to see the raging of the seas

6. 'We be three poor mariners'.

7. The Praise of Saylors

8. Cordial Advice

9. Dirge from The Tempest

10. Song from The Tempest

11. The Mermaid

12. The Storm.

13. Blow, Boreas, blow'

14. Neptune's Raging Fury.

15. Neptune's Resignation

16. The Sailor's Resolution

17. A Hymn in Praise of Neptune

18. Homeward Bound

19. 'For England, when, with fav'ring gale

20. The Bay of Biscay

21. The Mid-watch

22. 'I am a brisk and sprightly lad'

23. The Fisher's Life

27. 'Come, come, my jolly lads'.

28. All hands up aloft'

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44. Sir Walter Raleigh sailing in the Low-lands

45. The Golden Vanity

46. The Fame of Sir Francis Drake

47. The Triumph of Sir Francis Drake

48. The Spanish Armada

49. Sir Francis Drake: or Eighty-Eight

50. The Spanish Armada

53. Captain Ward and the Rainbow

54. The Seaman's Song of Captain Ward

55. Dansekar the Dutchman

56. Captain Glen

57. The Honour of Bristol.

58. England's Triumph at Sea

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59. Admiral Russel.

60. The Royal Triumph

61. The Duke of Ormond's Health

62. The Death of Admiral Benbow

63. Admiral Hosier's Ghost

64. The Arethusa

65. On the loss of the Royal George

Our line was form'd'.

66.

68. The Battle of the Baltic

69. To her Seafaring Lover

70. The Valiant Seaman's Happy Return

71. Love and Loyalty

72. The two Faithful Lovers

73. The Lawlands o' Holland

74. Bonnie Annie

75. The Seaman's Compass

76. The Fair Maid's Choice

77. A Pleasant New Song .

78. To Lucasta, going beyond the Seas

79. 'Oh, Yarmouth is a pretty town'

80. "Twas when the Seas were roaring'

81. Black-eyed Susan

82. The Sailor Laddie

83. The Seaman's Adieu

84. Constance and Anthony

85. The Gallant Seaman's Return

86. The Sailor Boy

87. The Welcome Sailor

88. The Maid's Lamentation

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89. The Distressed Ship Carpenter

90. 'To all

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you Ladies now at Land'

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98. 'Sweet Annie frae the Sea-beach came

'I'd think on thee, my

Love'

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100. O, Falmouth is a fine town'

NOTES

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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Earliest Sea Song

MEN may leve all gamys
That saylen to Seynt Jamys;
For many a man hit gramys,

When they begyn to sayle.

For when they have take the see,
At Sandwyche, or at Wynchylsee,
At Brystow, or where that hit bee,
Theyr herts begyn to fayle.

Anone the mastyr commaundeth fast
To hys shyp-men in all the hast,
To dresse hem sone about the mast,
Theyr takelyng to make.

With 'howe! hissa!' then they cry,
What, howe! mate, thow stondyst to ny,
Thy felow may nat hale the by';

Thus they begyn to crake.