Note 3 — ADMIRAL BENBOW AND HIS TREACHEROUS CAPTAINS.
Reading edition
Admiral Benbow was born at Cotton Hill, near Shrewsbury, in 1650. In a bedroom belonging to the house of his birth appear the following lines, written with a diamond on the window:—
“Then only breathe one prayer for me,
That far away, where’er I go,
The heart that would have bled for thee
May feel through life no other woe.
“I shall look back, when on the main,
Back to my native isle;
And almost think I hear again
That voice, and view that smile.”
Underneath has been added the following:—
“You go, and round that head, like banners in the air,
Shall float full many a loving hope and many a tender prayer.”