The Saucy Arethusa
''The Saucy Arethusa'' is a nautical song () which, although usually considered "traditional", has been attributed to Prince Hoare, a comic opera librettist, as part of a "musical entertainment" titled ''The Lock and Key'', performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1796. The melody to the song has been wrongly attributed to William Shield, who was the musical arranger of ''The Lock and Key''. It is more rightfully known as a piece by the Irish harper and composer Turlough O'Carolan called ''Miss MacDermott'' or ''The Princess Royal''. The "Arethusa" of the title is a frigate of the Royal Navy, named , which was originally built in 1757 as a French privateer under the name ''Pélerine'', renamed ''Aréthuse'' in early 1758 when purchased for the French Navy, from whom she was captured in 1759. According to Greek mythology, the nymph Arethusa, for whom the ship was named, was transformed by Artemis into a fountain. The song chronicles an engagement in the English Channel ...
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Prince Hoare (younger)
Prince Hoare (1755 – 22 December 1834) was an English painter, dramatist and librettist. "Prince" is a given name, not a royal title. Life Hoare was born in Bath, the son of painter William Hoare and his wife. He was named 'Prince' after his father's brother, a sculptor. He studied art from an early age, and became well known as a painter of portraits and historical scenes. His sister Mary Hoare was also a noted painter. Later in his life, Hoare wrote 20 plays. He also compiled the Memoirs of Granville Sharp' (1820), based on the British abolitionist Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and liberate the enslaved people. The British ...'s manuscripts, family documents and material from the African Institution, London.Hoare, Prince. ''Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq., Composed from his own Manuscripts an ...
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