The Caping trade a new song, much in request. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A33524 of text R40783 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing C478). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A33524 Wing C478 ESTC R40783 19317841 ocm 19317841 108576 2240871279

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A33524) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 108576) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1683:4) The Caping trade a new song, much in request. 1 broadside : ill. s.n., [London? : 1700?] Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Erotic poetry. eebo The caping trade. A new song, much in request. To an excellent new tune. [no entry] 1700 1 416 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2005-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2005-12 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2006-01 Sampled and proofread 2006-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2006-04 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Caping Trade . A New Song , much in Request . To an Excellent New Tune . [1] COme all brave Boyes of the Caping Trade , This stately Vessel we 'le invade , We 'le pin her Cargo to her Load , No quarters we 'le affoord her ; But standing Stiff and Still good fate . Although our Seas be sail'd of late . Come helm a Lee and low your Top , For I 'le lay my Life I 'le board her . [2] The first Attempt may prove in vain , Tho it be neither shame nor Stain ; The Brave may lose as well as gain . We 'le do it with Bravadoes , We 'le turn about and undertake To board her under Quarter-deck , With Blunderbosh and Ported-pike , And with two hand Granadoes . [3] I have been at the Caping-Trade , And Foreign Blood I oft have shed , But it is true that of Old was said , True Honour 's got by Danger , I 'le Stay at Home put up my Pike , No prizes move will to me Strike , For a Stately Vessel 's beat me back , I 'm sure 's was in all England . [4] Declining Days comes on apace , How dare I look mine Enemy i' the face , Since I came off with so great disgrace , And all for lake of Powder . My Ammunition's spent and gone , A little Gun scarce half foot long , Two little Balls not well worth one , So I am no more for Boarding . [5] Chear up anone you 're mad to think , That you are in danger for to sink , But with broad side closs to her clink , Deal Thumps and turn all over . Your Blind may splite upon her Stern , If you receive no greater harm , A Cup of Brandy your Heart being warm , Will soon that loss recover . [6] All you that Caping take in hand , See that your Main Mast straight doth stand , Your Soldiers all at your Command To fire at once make ready . Stand to it then for evermore , See that your Faults be ne're before , Stile first a Gun to the Cabbin door , Faint Heart ne're wan fair Lady . FINIS .