THE PRIVATEER.

THE

PRIVATEER;

A TALE,

IN TWO VOLUMES.

Some books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd :
Ev'n ministers they hae been kenn'd,
In holy rapture,

A rousing whid, at times, to vend,

And nail't wi' scripture.

But this that I am gaun to tell,
Which lately on a night befel,
Is just as true's the deil's in h-ll,

Or Dublin city.—BURNS.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN ANDREWS,

167, NEW BOND-STREET.

MDCCCXXI.