[7]

Sick or well, at sea or shore;

While we're quaffing,

Let's have laughing—

Who the devil cares for more?—

Some good wine! and who would lack it,

Ev'n on board the Lisbon Packet?

                            Falmouth Roads, June 30, 1809. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, i. 230-232.] 

FOOTNOTES:

[3] [For Francis Hodgson (1781-1852), see Letters, 1898, i. 195, note 1.]

[3]

[4] [Compare Peter Pindar's Ode to a Margate Hoy— 

[4]

"Go, beauteous Hoy, in safety ev'ry inch!

That storm should wreck thee, gracious Heav'n forbid!

Whether commanded by brave Captain Finch

Or equally tremendous Captain Kidd."]

[5] [Murray was "Joe" Murray, an ancient retainer of the "Wicked Lord." Bob was Robert Rushton, the "little page" of "Childe Harold's Good Night." (See Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 26, note 1.)]

[5]

[6] [For "the stanza," addressed to the "Princely offspring of Braganza," published in the Morning Post, December 30, 1807, see English Bards, etc., line 142, note 1, Poetical Works, 1898, i. 308, 309.]

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