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Title: The survey, by Captain Thomas Smyth, who then commanded The Pretty Lass.
[Latin epigraph]
Author: Smyth, Thomas
Attribution: Captain Thomas Smyth
Date(s): 181- or 182- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Comic ballad, a tale of an appearance to Smyth, on board ship, by a ghostly
hag claiming to be the 'Pretty Lass' and his bride. He is rescued by
'Melville', probably Robert Dundas, Viscount Melville, First Lord of the
Admiralty.