The sailors onely delight shewing the brave fight between the George-Aloe, the Sweep-stake, and certain Frenchmen at sea. To the tune of, The saylors joy. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B29244 of text R216145 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. 6KB 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 B29244 Wing S292 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.9[204] Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.9[205] ESTC R216145 ocm99884674

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 eng Naval battles -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The sailors onely delight : shewing the brave fight between the George-Aloe, the Sweep-stake, and certain Frenchmen at sea. To the tune of, The saylor n/a 1656 2 784 4 0 0 0 0 0 51.02 D The rate of 51.02 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Sailors onely Delight Shewing the brave Fight between the George-Aloe , the Sweepstake , and certain Frenchmen at Sea . To the tune of , The Saylors joy .

woodcut of ship
woodcut of shield with a lion passant guardant above a ship

THe George-Aloe and the Sweep-stake too , with hey , with hoe , for and a nony no , O they were Merchant men , and bound for Safee , and alongst the Coast of Barbary . The George-Aloe to Anchor came , with hey , with hoe , for and a nony no , But the jolly Swéep-stake kept on her way , and alongst the Coast of Barbary . They had not sayled leagues two or thrée , with hey , with hoe . &c. But they met with a Frenchman of war upon the Sea , and alongst , &c. All haile all haile you lusty Gallants , with hey , with hoe , &c. Of whence is your fair Ship , or whether are you bound and alongst , &c. We are Englishmen , and bound for Safee , with hey , with hoe , &c. Of whence is your fair Ship , or whither are you bound ? and alongst , &c. Amaine . amaine . you gallant Englishmen , with hey , with hoe , &c. Come you French Swads , and strike down your sayls , and alongst , &c. They laid us aboord on the Star-boord side , with hey , with hoe , &c. And they overthrew us into the Sea so wide , and longst , &c. When tidings to the George-Aloe came , with hey , with hoe . &c. That the jolly Swéep-stake by a Frenchman was tane . and alongst , &c. To top , To top , thou little Ship-boy , with hey , with hoe , &c. And sée if this Frenchman of war thou canst discry , and alongst , &c. A Sayle , a Sayle , under our lée , with hey , with hoe , &c. Yea , and another under her obey , and alongst , &c. Weigh anchor , Weigh anchor , O jolly Boat-swain , with hey , with hoe , &c. We will take this Frenchman if we can , and alongst ; &c. We had not sayled leagues two or thrée , with hey , with hoe , for and a nony no . But we met the Frenchman of war upon the Sea and alongst the Coast of Barbary .
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ALL ha●l● all haile , you lusty Gallants , with hey with hoe for and a nony no , Of whence is your faire Ship and whither are you bound ? and alongst th Coast of Barbary . O wée are Merchant men , and bound for Safee , with hey with hoe , &c. I , and wée are French-man and war upon the Sea , and alongst , &c. Amaine , amaine , you English Dogges , with hey , with hoe , &c. Come aboard you French rogus & strike down your sailes and alongst , &c. The first good shot the George Aloe shot , with hey , with hoe , &c. He made the French-mans hearts sore afraid , and alongst , &c. The second shot the George Alo● did afford , with hey , with ho● , &c. He struck their Main-mast over the board , and alongst , &c. Have mercy have mercy you brave English-men , with hey , &c. O what have you done with our Brethren on shore , as they sayled in Barbarie ? Wée laid them aboard on the Starboard side , with hey , &c. And we through them into the Sea so wide , and alongst , &c. Such mercy as you have shewed unto them , with hey , &c. Then the like mercy shall you have againe , and alongst , &c. Wée laid them aboard on the Larboard side , with hey , &c. And wée threw them into the Sea so wide , and alongst , &c. Lord how it grieves our hearts full fore , with hey , &c. To sée the drowned French-men swim along the shore . and alongst , &c. Now gallant Sea-men all adieu , with hey , &c. This is the last newes that I can write to you , to Englands Coast from Barbarie .
FINIS .

Printed for F. Coles , J. Wright , Tho . V●re , W. Gilbertson .