They don't make 'em like they used to...

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"A ship belonging to Mahomet Begh of Tunis this evening anchored in this Port, By her hee hath sent me a Stately Tame Hee Lyon."
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Nobody sends me Stately Tame Hee Lyons.

(I wonder if I should start writing slash about the Bey of Tunis and the British Consul in Tripoli? Hmmmmmm....)

A love triangle?

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"A Greel Pink... departed hence for Malta; By which opportunity I sent a stately, young, masculine, and very tame Lyon to His Eminence The Grand Master."
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The plot thickens!!