Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing, Volume 1 (of 3): Containing Lives of the Most Celebrated Pugilists; Full Reports of Their Battles from Contemporary Newspapers, With Authentic Portraits, Personal Anecdotes, and Sketches of the Principal Patrons of the Prize Ring, Forming a Complete History of the Ring from Fig and Broughton, 1719-40, to the Last Championship Battle Between King and Heenan, in December 1863
With alternate advantage two trials had past, When they fought out the rubber on Wednesday last; To see such a contest, the house was quite full, There hardly was room to thrust in your skull. With a prelude of cudgels we first were saluted, And two or three shoulders were handsomely fluted, Till, weary at last with inferior disasters, All the company cried, “The Masters! the Masters!”