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The Coiner - Peter Bellamy
Against the Bermudas we foundered whereby
This Master that swabber young bosun and I
Our pinnace and crew being drowned in the main
Must beg for our bread through old England again
For a bite and a sup and a bed of clean straw
We'll tell you such marvels man never saw
On a Magical Island which none did spy
Save this Master that swabber young bosun and I
Seven months among Mermaids and Devils and Sprites
And voices that howl in the cedars of nights
With further enchantments we underwent there
Good Sirs it is a tale to draw guts from a bear
Twixt Dover and Southwark it paid us our way
Where we found some poor players were labouring a play;
And willing to search what such business might be
We entered the yard both to hear and to see
For a bite and a sup and a bed of clean straw
We'll tell you such marvels man never saw
On a Magical Island which none did spy
Save this Master that swabber young bosun and I
One hailed us for seamen and courteously
Did guide us apart to a tavern nearby
Where we told him our tale as to many of late
And he gave us good cheer
So we gave him good weight
For mulled sack and strong waters on bellies well lined
With beef and black pudding do strengthen the mind;
And seeing him greedy for marvels at last
From plain salted truth to flat laying we passed
For a bite and a sup and a bed of clean straw
We'll tell you such marvels man never saw
On a Magical Island which none did spy
Save this Master that swabber young bosun and I
But he when on midnight our reckoning he paid
He says Never match coins with a Coiner by trade
Or he'll turn your lead pieces to metal as rare
As shall fill him this globe
And leave something to spare
So we slept where they laid us
When we awoke
It was a crown or five shillings in every man's poke
We bit them and rang them
And finding them good
We drank to that Coiner as honest men should
For a bite and a sup and a bed of clean straw
We'll tell you such marvels man never saw
On a Magical Island which none did spy
Save this Master that Swabber young bosun and I
