David Lloyd (Dean of St Asaph)

David Lloyd (1597 – 7 September 1663) was a Welsh clergyman, and was the author of a ballad The Legend of Captain Jones. Quotes The Legend of Captaine Jones (1656) London: Printed for Richard Marriot Sing thy armes (Bellona) and the man'sWhose mighty deeds out-did great Tamberlan's. p. 1 Wild mares' milk nurst him on the mountaines' gorse,Which gave him strength and stomach like a horse;Goats' flesh matur'd him, kill'd on craggy tops,Which taught him to mount rampiers like those rocks. p. 2    Thy immortalityNeptune thou must resigne, if I come thither:One sea may not containe us both together. p. 2 Nor waves nor winds could fright him with the motionWho thought he could containe and pisse an ocean. p. 3 A beare as black as darknesse, and as fellAs tyger, vast as the black dog of hell. p. 3 Hearts of oak. p. 6    Here's no place to fly,Come friends, let's bravely live or bravely die. p. 11 Thou drank'st but what thou pist for thrice seven dayes. p. 18 External links Category:1597 births Category:1663 deaths Category:Poets from Wales Category:Clergy from Wales Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:University of Oxford faculty