Note 138 — Chapter I
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Shakespere tells us “losers have leave to rail.” Among other things Molineaux declared he was “sold.” A weekly print had the following “impromptu,” of course “fait à loisir”:—
AN IMPROMPTU,
On its being said, in allusion to the late battle, that Molineaux had been “sold.”
The Black, to say at least, is bold,
That in the battle he was sold:
If so—by Auction—for ’tis known,
When he was sold, Cribb knocked him down!