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His pinnace beareth nine score men, 

 And fifteen cannons on each side. 

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Were ye twenty ships, and he but one, 

 I swear by Kirk, and bower and hall, 



He would overcome them every one 

 If once his beams they do down fall." 



OLD DEPTFOJUJ DOCKYAKD. 



But it was not so to be. Sir Thomas Howard, as he lay in the Downs, descried the 

 former making for Scotland, and immediately gave chase, "and there was a sore battle. 

 The Englishmen were fierce, and the Scots defended themselves manfully, and ever 

 Andrew blew his whistle to encourage his men. Yet, for all that, Lord Howard and his 

 men, by clean force, entered the main deck. There the English entered on all sides, and 

 the Scots fought sore on the hatches; but, in conclusion, Andrew was taken, being so 

 sore wounded that he died there, and then the remnant, of the Scots were taken, with 

 their ship." Meantime Sir Edward Howard had encountered the other piratical ship, 

 and though the Scots defended themselves like " hardy and well-stomached men," succeeded 

 in boarding it. The prizes were taken to Black wall, and the prisoners, 150 in number, 

 being all left alive, "so bloody had the action been," were tried at Whitehall, before the 



