In 1694 London’s streets echoed with a call to the piratical life:
Come all you brave boys, whose courage is bold,
Will you venture with me, I’ll glut you with gold?
Make haste unto Corona, a ship you will find
That’s called the Fancy, will pleasure your mind.
The ballad was supposedly written by the ‘pirate king’ Henry Every, who was about to pull off an astonishingly daring raid.
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