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15()3.] STUKELEY THE PIRATE. 151

whom he tooke coming from Florida. They wer the French-
men whom John Rybault left last yere in Terra Florida,
whichperceavingthat Rybault cam not, thought best to come
from thence in a vessell made by themselves.

Bore old Curtis to the grave,

A thing that Stukely wisht to have,

That he might revel all in gold so bright.

He was no sooner tombed,
But Stukely he presumed

To spend a hundred pound a day in waste ;
The greatest gallants in the land
Had Stukely 's purse at their command.

Thus merrily the time away he past.

Taverns and ordinaries
Were his chiefest braveries,

Golden angels there flew up and down ;
Ryots were his best delight,
With stately feasting day and night,

In court and city thus he won renown.

Thus wasting lands and living,
By this his lawless giving,

At length he sold the pavements of the yard,
Which cover'd were with blocks of tin,
Old Curtis left the same to him,

Which he consumed lately as you've heard.

Whereat his wife sore grieved,
Desiring to be relieved,

" Make much of me, dear husband," she did say.
" I'll make much more of thee," said he,
" Than any one shall, verily:"

And so he sold her clothes, and went his way."

-Adam Miller
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