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Yet still his claim the injured ocean laid, And oft at leap-frog o’er their steeples played, As if on purpose it on land had come To show them what’s their mare liberum.

Great Britain having bottled up the North Sea, a mare liberum must be established.

Yet still his claim the injur’d ocean laid, And oft at leap-frog ore their steeples plaid: As if on purpose it on land had come To show them what’s their mare liberum.