"Stand to your guns! my hearts of oak, / Let not a word on board be spoke."
Stand to Your Guns [also titled Sea Fight]
A popular song, much collected in late eighteenth-century song-books. Three editions of the comic opera in which the song appears printed in 1777. At least 35 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1777, 1781, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1792, 1795, 1798, 1800).<br>
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See Isaac Jackman's <u>The Milesian: A Comic Opera. In Two Acts.</u> (London: Printed for J. Wilkie, 1777), p. 22. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3312829691&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt; 