Some accounts state that a large white horse which was on board, was left near the foremast to perish in the names, and in storms of peculiarly terrific violence, that she may be seen, rushing along enveloped in lire, the horse stamping and pawing at the heel of the foremast, her phautoin crew assembled at quarters.-- Oallopanumg A merican Scenery, by A. B. Sitliman.
b Oallop among American Scenery, bv A. B. Silliman, *>12.
c Hutchinson says (vol. li. 119) that when the oitlcer arrested him he attempted to draw his sword, but was prevented by a person iu company. (1 New Jersey Hist. 800. Collect, 146.
c The author of the ballad has evldenUy mistaken the Christian name of the pirate, which was William.
THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE.
"Ye LAMENTABLE BALLAD AND Ye TRUE HISTORIE OF C AP TAINTS ROBERT KIDD, WHO WAS HANGED IN CHAINS AT EX ECUTION DOCK, FOR PIRACY AND ' MURDER ON Yk HIGH SEAS."
You captains bold and brave, hear our cries, hear our cries, You captains bold and brave, hear our cries,
You captains brave and bold, tho' you seem uncontroll'd, Don't for the sake of gold lose your souls, lose your souls, Don't for the sake of gold lose your souls.
My name was Robert Kidd, when I sail'd, when I sail'd,
My name was Robert Kidd, when I sail'd, My name was Robert Kidd, God's laws I did forbid,
And so wickedly I did, when I sail'd,
My parents taught me well, when I sail'd, when I sail'd,