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Caribbeana. Containing letters and dissertations, together with poetical essays on various subjects and occasions / chiefly wrote by several hands in the West-Indies ... Now collected together in two volumes. Wherein are also comprised, divers papers relating to trade, government, and laws in general; but more especially, to those of the British sugar-colonies, and of Barbados in particular ... To which are added in an appendix, some pieces never before published. Nov. 20, 1731-Dec. 16, 1738.

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1741
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Credit: Caribbeana. Containing letters and dissertations, together with poetical essays on various subjects and occasions / chiefly wrote by several hands in the West-Indies ... Now collected together in two volumes. Wherein are also comprised, divers papers relating to trade, government, and laws in general; but more especially, to those of the British sugar-colonies, and of Barbados in particular ... To which are added in an appendix, some pieces never before published. Nov. 20, 1731-Dec. 16, 1738. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [2] A s thefe Lines afforded the Perfons then prefent a good Deal of Mirth* it is to be hoped they may give at lead: fome Amufement to your Read¬ ers j for whofe Sake, I have here added a fhort Relation of that little Con- teft which occafioned them. And, becaufe the Authors think it improper to have their own Names inferted, I Jfhall call the One * Freeman, and the other jTruelove, One Morning at the fame Houfe, Freeman having got up very early to take a Turn in the Garden, the frefh Air had fuch an Effed:, that, at his Return, he found his Appetite very craving; but, unluckily for him, none of the Ladies were come down to dired the Feu-Fable. I n this melancholy 'Situation he bethought himfelf of an Expedient* which was to write an humble Petition, fetting forth the Hardfhip of his Cafe, and praying Relief in the Premifes, &c. and got it conveyed to the Hands of the Fair. The Event anfwer’d his Willies, for they immediately came down Stairs, and regal’d him with a good Breakfaft. This Favour and a full Meal chang’d Freeman's Fail: into a Thankfgiving •, for he di- redly wrote a Copy of Verfes expreffmg his Gratitude, and infcribed it to the Ladies, who honour’d it with their Approbation. An Account of his Succefs, as well as the Verfes themfelves coming foon afterwards to Fruelove's Elands, he was fired with the lirongeft Jealoufy imaginable •, he attacks them at once, calling them Hungry Linesr and infinuated that they merited no better Reward than a Slice of Bread and Butter. This occafions a Challenge in Poetry, which is inftantly accepted. The Fime^ the Place, Judges, and Conditions are prefently agreed to ; one whereof was. That the Sub]e51 fhould be given to the Candidates by the Judges, immediately before they entered upon their Tryalof Skill, in Or¬ der to prevent either of them from becoming Plagiary. The long expedled Day at laft came 5 the Competitors repair’d to the Place appointed, with great Impatience and Curiofity to know the THEM E. Freeman, we were told, upon the Road fiiewed the greatefl Unealmefs : Suppofe^ fays he, it fhould be a Sugar-Cane, I have him there l In fhort, if it fhould be a Whale, or a Flying-Filh, an Elephant, or a Mufketo, he declared himfelf in utrumque paratus. Nor was his Antagonift without his Anxieties. However, when Freeman arrived, he prefen tly craved Oyer (to ufe his own Phrale) of his Opponent’s Trunks, Papers, and Pockets ; when, unhappily, Bifhe*s Art of Poetry was, upon a ftridt Search, found at the Bottom of Fruelove*s Trunk, where he confeffed it had been convey’d as his Corps de Referve. The Fheme was then given, which to their mutual Surprize and Con- j I * Mr. J-nl + Mr, F—y cern
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