David Lloyd (Dean of St Asaph)

David Lloyd (1597 – 7 September 1663) was a Welsh clergyman, and was the author of a ballad The Legend of Captain Jones.

Quotes

The Legend of Captaine Jones (1656)

London: Printed for Richard Marriot

• Sing thy armes (Bellona) and the man's
  Whose mighty deeds out-did great Tamberlan's.
  • p. 1

• Wild mares' milk nurst him on the mountaines' gorse,
  Which gave him strength and stomach like a horse;
  Goats' flesh matur'd him, kill'd on craggy tops,
  Which taught him to mount rampiers like those rocks.
  • p. 2

•    Thy immortality
  Neptune thou must resigne, if I come thither:
  One sea may not containe us both together.
  • p. 2

• Nor waves nor winds could fright him with the motion
  Who thought he could containe and pisse an ocean.
  • p. 3

• A beare as black as darknesse, and as fell
  As tyger, vast as the black dog of hell.
  • p. 3

• Hearts of oak.
  • p. 6

•    Here's no place to fly,
  Come friends, let's bravely live or bravely die.
  • p. 11

• Thou drank'st but what thou pist for thrice seven dayes.
  • p. 18

External links

• Encyclopedic article on David Lloyd (Dean of St Asaph) on Wikipedia