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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE Young-Womans An&s;wer TO Her Former Sweet-Heart On board one of His Maje&s;ty's Ships, who com|plains of her &V;nkindne&s;s.</HEAD>
<OPENER>Tune of, <HI>I lov'd you dearly,</HI> &amp;c.</OPENER>
<LG>
<L>IN e'ery &s;treet I hear 'em &s;ing</L>
<L>My Love's <HI>Complaint,</HI> who &s;erv'd the <HI>King:</HI></L>
<L>I went with him to the <HI>Boy</HI> it'h' <HI>Nore,</HI></L>
<L>And could a gone all the World o're.</L>
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<L>He &s;ays my Love appeared true,</L>
<L>I do declare it was to too;</L>
<L>And let his <HI>love</HI> be ne're &s;o great,</L>
<L>Mine was as much, tho' unfortunate,</L>
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<LG>
<L>A Golden Chain I had of him,</L>
<L>Which I <HI>will</HI> freely return again;</L>
<L>As for my &s;ighing when we did part,</L>
<L>'Twas from the bottom of my heart.</L>
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<L>Then both of us did &s;traight agree,</L>
<L>At his return Married to be;</L>
<L>As for his <HI>letters</HI> he &s;ent to <HI>Town,</HI></L>
<L>I do <HI>declare</HI> I ne're had one.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But now I find it (tho' too late)</L>
<L>My <HI>love complains</HI> of his hard Fate;</L>
<L>But 'tis my Father's Fault indeed.</L>
<L>He often &s;aid that you were Dead.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>letters</HI> that you &s;ent to me,</L>
<L>My Father would not <HI>let</HI> me &s;ee;</L>
<L>But always &s;aid: <HI>Child be at re&s;t,</HI></L>
<L><HI>For thy Sweet-heart was &s;lain at</HI> Bre&s;t.</L>
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<L>Then he per&s;waded me to wed</L>
<L>To a rich <HI>old Man</HI> that's almo&s;t dead:</L>
<L>It's true I'm Married, and am a wife,</L>
<L>I wi&s;h I'd liv'd &s;ingle <HI>all my life.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>I always <HI>lov'd</HI> a Seaman brave,</L>
<L>And once I was in hopes to have</L>
<L>Him which I now ne're expect to &s;ee;</L>
<L>You Maidens <HI>all</HI> then pity me.</L>
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<LG>
<L>While we are young and once in <HI>love,</HI></L>
<L>It <HI>looks like ble&s;&s;ings</HI> from above;</L>
<L>Yet our Friends oftentimes <HI>will</HI> make</L>
<L>Us break tho&s;e Vows for Riches &s;ake.</L>
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<L>And as for <HI>Gold and Silver</HI> too,</L>
<L>I freely cur&s;e it as <HI>well</HI> as you;</L>
<L>For if that had not caus'd this &s;trife,</L>
<L>Then you and I had been Man and Wife.</L>
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<LG>
<L><HI>Altho'</HI> we both are cro&s;t in <HI>love,</HI></L>
<L>Your <HI>Re&s;olution</HI> I'd have ye move;</L>
<L>Since now you &s;ee the fault's not mine,</L>
<L>Think not &s;o hard on woman-kind.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Where one VVoman is fal&s;e in <HI>love;</HI></L>
<L>A hundred Men they fal&s;e do prove;</L>
<L>Tho' I lay not this charge to you,</L>
<L>Nor I hope you don't think me untrue.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Return, return, I beg my Dear,</L>
<L>For here are thou&s;and VVomen here,</L>
<L>That are more Beautiful than I,</L>
<L>Therefore ne're go where <HI>Bullets</HI> fly.</L>
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<L>'Twould be the comfort of my life.</L>
<L>To &s;ee you have a happy VVife,</L>
<L>Tho' I am cro&s;t, 'twill ea&s;e my pain,</L>
<L>To &s;ee you once return'd again.</L>
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<P>Printed for <HI>Charles Barnet.</HI></P>
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