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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
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<HEAD>A Warning for Married Women.</HEAD>
<ARGUMENT>
<P>Being an Example of <HI>Mrs. Jane Reynolds</HI> (a we&s;t-country-Woman) born neer <HI>Pilmouth</HI> who having plighted her troth to a Seaman, was afterwards married to a Carpenter, and at la&s;t carried away by a Spirit, the manner how &s;hall pre&s;ently be recited,</P>
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<OPENER>To a we&s;t-country Tune called, <HI>The fair Maid of</HI> Bri&s;tol: <HI>Bateman,</HI> or, <HI>John True.</HI></OPENER>
<LG>
<L>THere dwelt a fair Maid in the We&s;t,</L>
<L>of wor<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hy Birth and Fame,</L>
<L>Neer unto Pilmouth &s;tately Town</L>
<L>Jane Reynolds was her name.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This Dam&s;el dearly was beloved,</L>
<L>by many a proper youth:</L>
<L>And what of her is to be &s;aid,</L>
<L>is known for very truth:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Among the re&s;t a Seaman brave,</L>
<L>unto her a wooing came.</L>
<L>A comely proper youth he was,</L>
<L>James Harais call'd by N<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Maid and Young-man was agreed</L>
<L>as time did them allow,</L>
<L>And to each other &s;ecretly,</L>
<L>they made a &s;olemn vow.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That they would ever faithful be,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t Heaven <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">fforded life,</L>
<L>He was to be her Husband kind,</L>
<L>and &s;he his faithful Wife.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A day appointed was al&s;o,</L>
<L>when they were to be married,</L>
<L>But b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">fore th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> things were brought to pa&s;s</L>
<L>matters were &s;trangely carried.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All you that faithful lovers be,</L>
<L>give ear and hearken well,</L>
<L>And what of them became at la&s;t,</L>
<L>I will directly tell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Young man he was pre&s;t to Sea,</L>
<L>and forced was to go,</L>
<L>His &s;weet-heart &s;he mu&s;t &s;tay behind</L>
<L>Whatver &s;he would or no.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And after he was from her gone.</L>
<L>&s;he three years for him &s;taid,</L>
<L>Expecting of his coming home,</L>
<L>and kept her &s;elf a Maid.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At la&s;t news came that he was dead,</L>
<L>within a Forraign Land.</L>
<L>And how that be was buried.</L>
<L>&s;he well did under&s;tand.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For who&s;e &s;weet &s;ake the maiden &s;he,</L>
<L>lam<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">nted many a day;</L>
<L>And never was &s;he known at all,</L>
<L>the wanton for to play.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Carpenter that liv'd hard by,</L>
<L>when he heard of the &s;ame,</L>
<L>Like as the other had done before,</L>
<L>to her a wooing came.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when that he had gain'd her love,</L>
<L>they married were with &s;peed,</L>
<L>And four years &s;pace (being man &amp; wife)</L>
<L>they lovingly agreed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Three pretty Children in this time,</L>
<L>this lovely couple had,</L>
<L>Which made their Fathers heart rejoyce</L>
<L>and Mother wonderous glad.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But as occ<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ion &s;erv'd one time,</L>
<L>the good man took his way,</L>
<L>Some three days journey from his home</L>
<L>intending not to &s;tay.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But whil&s;t that he was gone away,</L>
<L>a &s;pirit in the night.</L>
<L>Came to the window of his Wife,</L>
<L>and did her &s;orely f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which Spirit &s;pake like to a man,</L>
<L>and unto her did &s;ay,</L>
<L>My dear and onely love (quoth he)</L>
<L>prepare and come away.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>James Harais is my name (quoth he)</L>
<L>whom thou did&s;t lowe &s;o dear,</L>
<L>And I have travel'd for thy &s;ake,</L>
<L>at lea&s;t this &s;even year.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And now I am return'd again,</L>
<L>to take thee to m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> wife,</L>
<L>And thou with me &s;halt go to Sea,</L>
<L>to end all further &s;trife.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O tempt me not &s;weet James (quoth &s;he)</L>
<L>with thee away to go.</L>
<L>If I &s;hould le<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ve my children &s;mall,</L>
<L>alas what would they do</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Husband is a Carpenter,</L>
<L>a Carpenter of great fame,</L>
<L>A would not for five hundred pounds,</L>
<L>that he &s;hould know the &s;ame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I might have had a Kings Daughter,</L>
<L>and &s;he would have married me,</L>
<L>But I for&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ok her Golden Crown.</L>
<L>even for the love of thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therefore if thou'l thy husband for&s;ake,</L>
<L>and thy children three al&s;o</L>
<L>I will &s;o give thee what is pa&s;t,</L>
<L>if thou wilt with me go.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If I for&s;ake my husband, and</L>
<L>my little Children three,</L>
<L>What means ha&s;t thou to bring me to,</L>
<L>If I &s;hould go with thee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I have &s;even Ships upon the Sea,</L>
<L>when they are come to Land.</L>
<L>Both Mariners and Merchandise,</L>
<L>&s;hall be at th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> command.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Ship where in my love &s;hall &s;ail,</L>
<L>is glorious to behold,</L>
<L>The &s;ails &s;hall be of <UNCLEAR>fine&s;t</UNCLEAR>,</L>
<L>and the ma&s;t of &s;hining go<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">d</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When he had told her the&s;e fair tal<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s</L>
<L>to love him &s;he began,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e he was in humane &s;hape,</L>
<L>much like unto a man.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And &s;o together away they went,</L>
<L>from off the Engli&s;h &s;hore,</L>
<L>And &s;ince that time the Woman-kind,</L>
<L>was never &s;een no more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But when her Husband he came home.</L>
<L>and found his Wife was gone,</L>
<L>And left her three &s;weet pretty babas,</L>
<L>within the hou&s;e alone.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>He beat his brea&s;t, he tore his hair,</L>
<L>the tears fell from his eyes,</L>
<L>And in the open &s;treets he run,</L>
<L>with heavy doleful cries.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And in this &s;ad di&s;tracted ca&s;e,</L>
<L>he Hang'd him&s;elf for Woe,</L>
<L>Upon a tree, near to the place:</L>
<L>the truth of all is &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The children now are fatherle&s;s,</L>
<L>and left without a guide.</L>
<L>But yet no doubt the heavenly powers,</L>
<L>will for them well provide.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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