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Title: A sailor on board the Tartar man of war at Virginia commanded by Captain
Vincent Price having committed a misdemeanour, & being order'd to be brought
down to the gangway to be whipt, spoke the following verses extempore, on
which his punishment was remitt
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Witty petition by a sailor not to whipped with a cat o' nine tails
Title: Occasioned by a sailor's being orderd to be whipt by his capt. who had an
aversion to a cat
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 7
Contents: Witty petition by a sailor not to be whipped with a cat o' nine tails
Title: Verses written by a Sailor in the Tartar who was sentenc'd to a cat and nine tails. Addressed to the Captain
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A sailor in the Tartar
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Witty petition by a sailor not to whipped with a cat o' nine tails. Followed by:'Note. He was pardoned, and is now Boatswain of a Capital Ship.'
Title: Phoebuses complant for the death of Phaeton
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 76
Contents: On Apollo's refusal to work because of his anger at his son Phaeton's death, his challenge to the gods, and his punishment of his horses; from Ovid's Metamorphoses, II