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<HEAD>The Seamans &s;orowful Bride</HEAD>
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<L>See here the con&s;tant mournful Bride,</L>
<L>In &s;orrow doth complain;</L>
<L>For fear her joy and hearts delight,</L>
<L>Should ne'r return again.</L>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Ah! jenny Gin.</HI></OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>My Love is on the bracki&s;h Sea,</L>
<L>and I am on this &s;ide,</L>
<L>'Twould break a poor young creatures heart,</L>
<L>that lately was a Bride:</L>
<L>That lately was a joyful Bride,</L>
<L>&s;o plea&s;ent to the eye,</L>
<L>But <HI>Hollands</HI> Land, doth me with&s;tand,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>and part my Love and I.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Love that I in heart have cho&s;e,</L>
<L>I therewith am content,</L>
<L>The floating Sea &s;hall dryed be,</L>
<L>before I will repent:</L>
<L>But cruel Fate my joys arre&s;t,</L>
<L>it cannot helped be,</L>
<L>Whil&s;t I do cry, mo&s;t mournfully,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>fate parts my Love and me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O gentle Neptune be &s;o kind,</L>
<L>to &s;end him back again,</L>
<L>He ne'r will be out of my mind,</L>
<L>that now hath cro&s;t the Main:</L>
<L>Oh haple&s;s Bride, &s;o &s;oon to loo&s;e</L>
<L>the plea&s;ure of thine eye,</L>
<L>But rigid fate, my bills doth hat<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
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<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>and parts my Love and I.</L>
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<LG>
<L>No &s;leep &s;hall give my troubled mind</L>
<L>a comfortable hour,</L>
<L>For while my Love is on the Main,</L>
<L>fears do my joys devour:</L>
<L>And cery bla&s;t that blows, I fear,</L>
<L>my Love &s;hould drowned lye,</L>
<L>But 'tis a grief, beyond relief,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>&s;o Love for thee i'le dye.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ah! cruel Fate, too much unkind,</L>
<L>why do&s;t thou &s;erve me &s;o?</L>
<L>Give ea&s;y to my de&s;tre&s;&s;ed mind,</L>
<L>and bani&s;h all my woe&punc;</L>
<L>For I &s;hall never be at re&s;t,</L>
<L>till I my Love do &s;ee,</L>
<L>Then gentle mind, be &s;ure be kind,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>ne'r part my Love and me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You &s;turdy Rocks be &s;ure give way,</L>
<L>and let my Love &s;ail by,</L>
<L>For if he &s;hould be made your Prey,</L>
<L>in what a ca&s;e were I:</L>
<L>Or if the waves &s;hould cruel prove,</L>
<L>which I ne'r hope to &s;py,</L>
<L>I &s;hould be lo&s;t, and &s;trangely cro&s;t,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>to part my Love and I.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Blow wind and &s;end a happy Gale,</L>
<L>that he may home return,</L>
<L>If thou but fill his pro&s;perous Sail</L>
<L>I need no longer mourn:</L>
<L>My happine&s;s will be compleat,</L>
<L>when him I chance to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Now I lament, in di&s;content,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>&s;ince Fate parts him and me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>You powerful Stars that Mortals rule,</L>
<L>mind but my &s;ad complaint,</L>
<L>And &s;end me home my Love again,</L>
<L>that now am like to faint:</L>
<L>I &s;igh, I pant, I wa&s;te away,</L>
<L>no plea&s;ures can I &s;ee,</L>
<L>Since my Delight, is out of &s;ight,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>and fate parts him and me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now mu&s;t I blame the cruel wind</L>
<L>that &s;ent my Love away,</L>
<L>O fates, why were you &s;o unkind,</L>
<L>as not to let him &s;tay:</L>
<L>Ju&s;t in the bud of all my joys,</L>
<L>could you &s;o cruel be,</L>
<L>To bani&s;h hence, my Love, my Prince,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>and part my Love and me.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Is it in vain to &s;igh and mourn,</L>
<L>unhappy then am I,</L>
<L>Or now becau&s;e I am forlorn,</L>
<L>mu&s;t I in &s;orrow dye?</L>
<L>No, no, I hope there's joys in &s;tore,</L>
<L>that I may live to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Though now oppre&s;t, I may be ble&s;t,</L>
</LG>
<LG TYPE="refrain">
<L>Heavens ble&s;s my Love and me.</L>
</LG>
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<HEAD>The Seaman's An&s;wer.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>Leave off thy tears my only joy,</L>
<L>&s;ince I am &s;afe arriv'd:</L>
<L>Let not this grief my Love de&s;troy,</L>
<L>nor be of hopes depriv'd;</L>
<L>For I'le imbrace thee in my Arms,</L>
<L>and fill thee with &s;uch bli&s;s;</L>
<L>That Venus with her dallying Charms.</L>
<L>envies our happine&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Though I upon the Seas was to&s;t,</L>
<L>when ab&s;ent from my Dear:</L>
<L>Fearing each moment to be lo&s;t,</L>
<L>yet this my comfort were:</L>
<L>That I &s;hould &s;afe again return,</L>
<L>which now I find is true;</L>
<L>And &s;ince I in Loves pa&s;sion burn,</L>
<L>I bid the Seas adieu.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now we will revel day and night,</L>
<L>within each others Arms;</L>
<L>In thee &s;hall be my chief delight,</L>
<L>I'le &s;hield thee from all harms,</L>
<L>Kindly thy body I'le imbrace,</L>
<L>and ever con&s;tant be.</L>
<L>No other joys &s;hall e're take place,</L>
<L>I'le live and dye with thee.</L>
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<P>Printed for J. Dra<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">en, in Guilt&s;pur-&s;treet.</P>
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