The seamans dream, of a great fight between several men of war, near the Downes and the Long-Sand-Head, the elements being in a very pleasing calm, as I thought, gave me opportunity of a free prospect of this following encounter. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A58894 of text R222370 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 3KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A58894 Wing S2188 ESTC R222370 99833551

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 eng Naval battles -- Early works to 1800. Dreams -- Early works to 1800. eebo The seamans dream, of a great fight: between several men of war, near the Downes and the Long-Sand-Head, the elements being in a very pleasing calm, a n/a 1680 2 475 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. 2014-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE Seamans Dream , Of a great FIGHT : between several Men of War , Near The DOWNES AND THE LONG-SAND-HEAD , The Elements being in a very pleasing Calm , as I thought , gave me opportunity of a free Prospect of this following Encounter .

AT the first , according to my Thinking , there appeared a Magnificent Ship , whose Majestical Stature bespoke her to be the Royal Soveraign , Sayling gradually , as representing Melancholly . Presently came up a Friggot Sailing up and down more nimbly , dancing as it were , to divert the Soveraign , called the Dutchess : but the Jig was interrupted by the Rupert ; who jostling her aside , bore up to the Soveraign , and lay by her Side , as it were to Consult or receive Orders from her . These were again disturbed by the Royal James , which with full say I came between the Soveraign and the Rupert and not only divided them but prepared for a Fight with the Rupert , this was presently understood by the London , who as furiously came up and fell upon the James , nor would desist till she had put her to Chase : great had been the Conflict , had not the Prince come up and enterposed . When this was done , the London tacks about , running out her double T eire and was for sinking the Dutchess ; which had not the Royal Charles defended had gon inevitably to the Bottom . The Ingagement thus begun , a Counsel was call'd & amongst those , it was observed , there was one Ship so cunnigly contrived , on purpose as it were , for all Winds , and with conveniency could tack about and bear Alee , sometimes to the Soveraign , and sometimes to the London , and presently sayling aside , had many Fire-ships to attend her ; but after some Conferences , they were dispers'd and she returned to the Counsel ; but not long after the Fleet was a-Fire in the Rear , which was unfortunately carried on with a North-wind arising at the same time , and had undoubtedly endangered all of them , had not the Valliant new James come speedily to quench them , and reduce them to Order , other Privateers were held as accessary to this Combustion , but their names were not discovered . But in my Dream I thought that from what was seen , might easily be gathered , that if that Ship ( whose Name was Turn-well , Lurcher , Shift-all , having many Names , and for many things ) was not speedily removed from the Soveraign , the Royal Navy would infallibly be Ruined : and then I Awak'd .

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