142 SUCCESS OF THE SONG. 



As to me, in all weathers, all times, tides, and ends, 

 Nonght's a trouble from duty that springs ; 



My heart is my Poll's, and my rhino my friend's. 

 And as for my life, 'tis my King's." 



The country was indebted to this faculty of rhyming 

 for much of that daring and devotion to its interests 

 which distinguished soldiers and sailors at that 

 remarkable period. Dibdin's songs, as he, with 

 pride, was wont to say, were ''the solace of sailors 

 on long voyages, in storms, and in battles." His 

 " Tom Moody'' illustrated the same pluck and daring 

 which under the vicissitudes and peculiarities of the 

 times — had it been Tom's fortune to have served 

 under Drake or Blake, Howe, Jervis, or Nelson — 

 would equally have supplied materials for a stave. 



From the letter of the Squire the reader will see 

 how truthfully the great English Beranger, as he 

 has been called, adhered to the circumstances in his 

 song : — 



" You all knew Tom Moody, the whipper-in, well. 

 The hell that's done tolling was honest Tom's knell ; 

 A more able sportsman ne'er followed a hound 

 Through a country well known to him fifty miles round. 

 No hound ever open'd with Tom near a wood. 

 But he'd challenge the tone, and could tell if it were good ; 

 And all with attention would eagerly mark. 

 When he cheer'd up the pack, * Hark ! to Rockwood, hark ! hark ! 

 Hie ! — wind him ! and cross him ! Now, Eattler, boy ! Hark ! ' 



