SHACKELL AND BAYLIS, JOHNSON'S-COURT, FLEET-STREET.

SAILORS AND SAINTS.

CHAPTER I.

NOLENS VOLENS.

"The crocodile with wat❜ry eyes,

O'er man, and ev'ry creature cries;
Then feeds, with pleasure, on his prey-

So hypocrites their friends betray."

In order to account for Burton's having enjoyed a tête-à-tête with his fair enslaver, without interruption, it would be necessary only to mention that the coxswain had previously been summoned by his master, to form part of a tête-à-tête of another description, in the

veteran's own room.

Since the lieutenant had taken up his resi

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