THE
Surprizing Adventures,
OF
Jack Oakum, & Tom Splicewell.
Kings, who are Fathers, live but in their People,
DRYD. DON. SEB.
AT the conclusion of the war, Jack Oakum and Tom Splicewell, two sailors, who had been some time on shore, and had spent the produce of their last voyage; after a small time their Wapping Landlady, who was called Mother Double-Chalk, began not only to look coolly upon them, but also according to custom, when their money was gone, to behave roughly towards them; and they not being entered again into any service, began to ⟨scheme⟩ how they should raise a little money for their present use; and, after several proposals made between them, that still met some objections, one of them at length said (illegible text) messmate, what think you of a trip or two, for a venture, ⟨o'privateering⟩ about these coasts a little? in my mind we
