Excerpt from Ballads of the Fleet: And Other Poems Included in the present have mostly appeared before, either in the first edition of Ballads of the Fleet or in the Violet Crown, both of which are now out of print. The story of Drake has been completed by the addition of some new pieces, and the former divisions of the subject have been broken up into shorter poems, in deference to friendly criticism. Abou Hamed appeared in the Spectator, to whose editor my acknowledgments are due. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.