<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506516" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bold Princess Royal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O on the fourteenth day of February we sailed from the land<br>In the bold Princess Royal bound for Newfoundland.<br>We had forty bright sailors for our ship's companie,<br>And boldly from the eastward to the westward sailed we.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We had not been sailing scarce days two or three<br>When our man from the masthead a sail he did see.<br>She bore down upon us to see what we were,<br>When from under her mizzen black colours she wore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My God cries our Captain what shall we do now<br>For there comes a bold pirate to rob us I know.<br>O no, cries our chief mate it cannot be so<br>For we'll spread out our reef boys and from her we'll go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when this bold pirate came up alongside<br>Through a loudspeaking trumpet he said 'Who are you?'<br>Our Captain walked the quarterdeck and he answered him so<br>'We come from fair London and we're bound for Cairo.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then draw up your courses and heave your ship to<br>For I've got a letter. I'll send on by you.<br>We'll draw up our courses and heave our ship to<br>But it will be in some harbour not alongside of you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He chased us to windward for all that long day<br>He chased us to windward and night and a day<br>He chased us to windward but could not prevail<br>Whilst the bold Princess Royal did show them her tail.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thank God cries our captain, since the pirate has gone<br>'Bring a cask of good brandy, fore and aft let it run.<br>Go down to your grog boys, and be of good cheer,<br>As long as we've sea-room my boys never fear</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Burns">Robert Burns</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506516" data-title="The Bold Princess Royal de Robert Burns" data-description="O on the fourteenth day of February we sailed from the land In the bold Princess Royal bound for Newfoundland. We had forty bright sailors for our ship's companie, And boldly from the eastward to the westward sailed we. We had not been sailing sc..."></div> </div> </div>

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