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Thread #133473 Message #3030497
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
12-Nov-10 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Jack Tar / Poor Jack / Saucy Sailor
Subject: RE: Origins: Jack Tar / Poor Jack / Saucy Sailor
That 1791 date has been invoked by several collectors, but I cannot locate any broadside or printing. It may exist, but I would like to see it.
Anything on the two lines, possibly from Dibdin Sr or Jr, I quoted above? The Title given on the cut-off fragment at the Bodleian is "Water Cresses," but that seems to be a different poem.