This is what was enscribed on Selkirk's flip-can:
Alexander Selkirk. This is my one.
When you me take on board of ship,
Pray fill me full with punch or flip.
Fulham.
I think we are looking at something like this:
New England Almanac for 1704 under December:-
"The days are short, the weather's cold,
By tavern fires tales are told.
Some ask for dram when first come in,
Others with flip and bounce begin."
This one supplied by Dave Reid.
"Where dozed a fire of beechen logs that bred
Strange fancies in its embers golden-red,
And nursed the loggerhead, whose hissing dip,
Timed by wise instinct, creamed the bowl of flip."
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