21 Jun 1753:12,13 (1278)
Pennsylvania Gazette-Philadelphia    
PG-P.753.095                                                            
21 Jun 1753:12,13 (1278)                                                
[In long, double article on the British herring fishery, in             
the middle of the second column:]                                       
  I think it not improper, in this place, to refresh the                
memory of Britons, with the words of an old tune; which has             
been for a long while so tuned, that the said words, at                 
least the purport of them, seem to be well nigh lost:                   
  Britons strike home,                                                  
  Revenge your country's wrongs;                                        
  Fight and record                                                      
  Yourself in Druid's song.                                             
. . . [1 column, at the end of the article:]                            
P.S.  I hope, that beside the weighty and unanswerable                  
arguments of right, property, wealth, honour, and its being             
a constant seminary of young sailors--of improving the                  
natural, the naval strength of our nation; our fishery may              
be encouraged by the present public spirited parliament, as             
the likeliest means to maintain our necessitous, as well as             
dissolute thieving poor--that the scandalous, vagrant tribe             
of beggars, ballad-singers, gypsies, shew-men, prize-                   
fighters, boxers, and night ladies, who are a dead weight on            
the trading and industrious part of the community, may be               
usefully employed, to the diminishing our poor's rate, as               
well as the number of sharpers, pickpockets, and highwaymen.