56 97 80 common ancestor, a hero in the German
wars of the seventeenth century, in which
poem occur the lines, 100 red follows
"This 'tis to have been from the first 67
In a domestic heaven nursed,
Under the discipline severe
Of Fairfax and the starry Vere"
And so, upon embracing his gallant
cousin fresh from Rodney's great gallant
victory wherein he had played so gallant
a part, ^ brimming over with full of just family pride in the sailor of their house, he exuberantly exclaimed,
"Give you ye joy, Ed; give ye joy, my
starry Vere!" This got currency,
and the novel prefix serving in familiar
parlance readily to distinguish ^ The Indomitable's captain him
from another Vere his senior, a distant relative an officer
of like rank in the navy, it remained permanently
attached to his ^ the surname. ——//——
56 97 80 common ancestor, a hero in the German
wars of the seventeenth century, in which
poem occur the lines, 100 red follows
"This 'tis to have been from the first 67
In a domestic heaven nursed,
Under the discipline severe
Of Fairfax and the starry Vere"
And so, upon embracing his gallant
cousin fresh from Rodney's great gallant
victory wherein he had played so gallant
a part, ^ brimming over with full of just family pride in the sailor of their house, he exuberantly exclaimed,
"Give you ye joy, Ed; give ye joy, my
starry Vere!" This got currency,
and the novel prefix serving in familiar
parlance readily to distinguish ^ The Indomitable's captain him
from another Vere his senior, a distant relative an officer
of like rank in the navy, it remained permanently
attached to his ^ the surname. ——//——

Transcribed by: John Bryant