Accepted addresses Author:Addresses Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: OF PLYMOUTH DOCK. SONG. I'M honest Jack of Plymouth Dock, To king and country true, So firm my heart, 'tis like a rock, For fear I never knew. Tho' ... more »breakers strike, the vessel reel, The planks begin to part, Tho' enemies a broadside deal, My timbers never start; For honest Jack of Plymouth Dock, Is to his post sincere, He disregards the loudest shock, A stranger to all fear. But when distress, that biting shark, Has laid a comrade low, The first am I, indeed, t'embark, And take the wretch in tow, And like a sail my heart-strings bend. For ah! I cannot bear To see, perhaps, a bosom friend Begin to pipe a tear; No, honest Jack of Plymouth Dock Is to his friend sincere, By flattery he scorns to mock, With help he loves to cheer. MR. SNOW AND MISS FROST, THE WARM COUPLE. MR. SNOW, late of Coldttreamt For Miss J'ront a passion felt; Mr. Snow avow'd his flame, And Miss Frost began to melt. Off from Cold-Bath-Fields were they, Eager for the nuptial bands; Mr. Hoar gave Frost away, Doctor Winter join'd their hands. AN ACtOR. AN actor's the Wonder, the Rage, The Man of the World I declare, He fights, dies, and kills, on the stage, For Killing no Murder is there. An actor can be Rich and Poor, Poor Vulcan, Poor Soldier appear And yet th' Heir at Law can insure The Purse, and Five Thousand a Year. Oh, he is the Poor Gentleman, The Hypocrite, for he can scoff. The Weathercock, Catch him who can, Abroad and at Home, Five Miles off. At Home, he is then full of whim, But when Not at Home there's a hiss; A hint Look at Home is to him, Whene'er Out of Place, Hit or Miss. The Country Attorney be pi?, And I Ante in a Pillage be A H.i .,11 the Murk Doctor pontnm, For /r, Law, and Pkyue b...« less