| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Three Poor Mariners | | By Thomas Ravenscroft (1592?–1635?) |
| | | WE be three poor mariners, | |
| Newly come from the seas; | |
| We spend our lives in jeopardy, | |
| While others live at ease. | |
| Shall we go dance the round, the round, | 5 |
| Shall we go dance the round? | |
| And he that is a bully boy | |
| Come pledge me on this ground. | |
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| We care not for those martial men | |
| That do our states disdain; | 10 |
| But we care for the merchant men | |
| Who do our states maintain: | |
| To them we dance this round, around, | |
| To them we dance this round; | |
| And he that is a bully boy | 15 |
| Come pledge me on this ground. | | | | |
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