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Like a Lady thou shalt flourish, Thy poor drooping heart I'll nourish, and thy former Joys restore; Gold and Treasure, Love and Pleasure if I live to come on shore.

Love, the world shall now admire,
When they see thy rich attire,
like a youthful Lady Gay;
I declare it, thou shalt wear it,
yet proud France for it shall pay.

Dearest, though we now do sever,
Yet I will be thine for ever;
I prefer no one beside,
E'er before thee, I adore thee,
none but Death shall us divide.

LXXII

The two Faithful Lovers

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To the tune of, Francklin is fled.'

Man.

FAREWEL my Hearts delight,

Lady adue;

I now must take my flight,

what ere insue.
My Country-men I see,

cannot yet agree,

Since it will no better be,
England farewel:

Maid.

O be not so unkind,

Heart, Love, and Joy, To leave me here behind,

breeds my annoy :

O have a patient heart,
I'le help to bear the smart,
Ere I from thee will part,
my Turtle Dove.

Man.

I'le leave thee Gold good store, thee to maintain,

What canst thou wish for more, do not complain.

Servants shall wait on thee,
I'le give thee Jewels three
That thou mayest think on me,
when I am gone.

Maid.

Your Gold I count but Dross, when you are fled, Your absence is my loss,

'twill strike me dead;

Servants I will have none

When you are from me gone,

I'de rather live alone,

from company.

Man.

I am resolv'd to go,

Fortune to prove.

Advise me what to do, my dearest Love.

For here I will not bide,
What ere it me betide
Heavens now me guide,
and lead the way.

Maid.

Then let me with you go,
Heart, Love, and Joy,

I will attend on you,
and be your Boy;
If you will go to Sea,

I'le serve you night and day,
For here I will not stay,
if you go hence.

Man.

The Seas are dangerous,
strangers unkind,
The Rocks are perillous,

so are the Wind,
My care is all for thee,

As thou mayest plainly see, Dear heart go not with me, but stay behind.

Maid.

Though Seas do threaten death,

my heart's delight,

with thee I'le spend my breath,

nought shall affright, With thee I'le live and die,

In thy sweet company,

Though dangers still be nigh,

both day and night.

In man's Apparrel she

to Sea now went. Because with him she'd be, her heart's content. She cut her lovely hair, And no mistrust was there,

That she a Maiden fair

was at that time.

To Venice were they bound,

with full consent,

With sorrows compast round,

away they went.

On an unhappy day,

The Ship was cast away,

Which wrought their lives decay,

friends discontent.

The Ship being cast away, fortune so frown'd:

He swum to shore that day,
but she was drown'd;

O his true Love was drown'd,
And never after found,
And he incompast round

with grief and care.

O cruel Seas, quoth he,
and Rocks unkind,
To part my Love and me,

in love combin'd:

O cast her on the shoare,
I may her death deplore,
And mourn for evermore
until I die.

Ye loyal Lovers all

that hear this Ditty, Sigh and lament her fall

moves you to pitty.

She lies now in the Deep,

In everlasting sleep,

And left me here to weep
in great distress.

Dear Love I come quoth he,
Heavens me guide,

I long to be with thee,

my only Bride.

In Venice did he die,

And there his Corps doth lie,
And left his friends to cry,
O bone, O bone.

LXXIII

The Lawlands o' Holland

'THE love that I hae chosen, I'll therewith be content;

The saut sea sall be frozen

Before that I repent.

Repent it sall I never

Until the day I dee;

But the Lawlands o' Holland Hae twinn'd my love and me.

'My love he built a bonny ship, And set her to the main,

twinn'd] separated.

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