The Roxburghe ballads . d I will be faithful, Love, thou shalt find. 48 Then from her fair eyes the tears they did trickle, Like streams that flowd down from the fountain of love,Faithful and Loyal, and scorns to be fickle, Her heart it was fixed and could not in sorrow almost broken-hearted, The wind it did serve with a most pleasant gale;Then these two Lovers, alas! they were parted, For the goodly Ship was now under sail. Now he is gone, may the Heavens protect him! From all the proud Waves of the Tempestuous Main !Keep him from danger, and always direct him, And send him in sa
The Roxburghe ballads . d I will be faithful, Love, thou shalt find. 48 Then from her fair eyes the tears they did trickle, Like streams that flowd down from the fountain of love,Faithful and Loyal, and scorns to be fickle, Her heart it was fixed and could not in sorrow almost broken-hearted, The wind it did serve with a most pleasant gale;Then these two Lovers, alas! they were parted, For the goodly Ship was now under sail. Now he is gone, may the Heavens protect him! From all the proud Waves of the Tempestuous Main !Keep him from danger, and always direct him, And send him in safety to England again !Here to compleat our joys with a blessing, In a True-Lovers knot which can ner be untyd:All that is mine, he shall then be possessing, And never depart till Death us divide. JFinfe. 64 Printed for J. Beacon, at the Angel, in Guilt-spur-Street. [Black-letter. Two cuts: 1st, 418 ; 2nd, vol. vi. p. 413. Date, circ& 1680,when DUrfeys State and Ambition appeared.] This cut is/orpp. 492, 495 [Pepys Collection, IV. 92 ; Huth I. 124 ; Douce I. 86, S8vo.; C. 22. fol. 136w. ; Jersey, II. 181=Lind., 413.] %\)t Gallant Sea-mans l&esolutton; OTjosc full intent teas ta trg fjts fortune at Sea, an* at fy&Eeturn ntarrg |)is 3LanIatig. If Heavn be pleasd to bless him with his life,None but his Lanlady shall be his Wife:She being a Widow, as tis understood,Of Carriage and Behaviour very good. A To the Tune [its own], Think on thy loving Lanlady, etc. Gallant Youth at Gravesend livd, a Seaman neither rich nor poor ;But when his means were almost spent, he bravely went to Sea for more: Turn to thy Love, and take a kiss, this Gold about thy wrist Til tye,And always ivhen thou lookst on this, think on thy loving Lanlady ! His Father being dead and gone, he lovd his Mother as his did maintain her gallantly ; it was well known he had no Wife : Turn to thy Love, and take a kiss etc. He was belovd of Rich and Poor, and still kept company with the best. A Gall
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