The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on one fide was beat into the room, with a crafh, as if a twenty-pounder had been difcharged among us. We were all alarmed at the fuddennefs of the accident, for which, however, we were foon able to account: for the fafh, which was fhivered all to pieces, was purfued into the middle of the cabin by the boltfprit of a little fhip, called a cod-fmaek, the mailer of which made us amends for running (carelefly at bell) againft us, and injuring the fhip, in the fea way; that is to fay, by damning us all to hell, and uttering fe¬ deral pious wifhes that it had done us much more mifehief. All which were anfwered in their own kind and phrafe by our men ; between whom, and the other crew, a dialogue of oaths and feurrility was carried on, as long as they continued in each other’s hearing. It is difficult, I think, to affign a fatisfactory reafon why Tailors in gene¬ ral fhould, of all others, think them- felves entirely difcharged from the com¬ bo 3 mon