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Why of all comforts will you bereave me,
Our love is fix’d never to be remov’d.
Then said her father a trip to the ocean,
You first shall go in a ship of my own,
And I’ll consent you shall have my daughter,
When to Yarmouth again you return.
Honoured Sir, then said the two lovers,
Since ’tis your will we are bound to obey,
Our constant hearts can never be parted,
But our eager desires no longer can stay.
Then said kind Nancy, behold, dearest Jemmy,
Here take this ring, the pledge of our vows,
With it my heart, keep it safe in your bosom.
Carry it with you wherever you go.
Then in his arms he close, did enfold her,
While chrystal tears like a fountain did flow;
Crying, my heart in return I do give you,
And you shall be present wherever I go.
When on the ocean, my dear, I am sailing,
The thoughts of my jewel the compass shall steer;
These tedious long days speedily time will devour,
And bring me home again safe to my dear.
Therefore be constant, my dear lovely jewel,
For, by the Heavens! if you are untrue,
My troubled ghost shall torment you for ever,
Dead or alive, I will have none but you.
Her lovely arms round his neck then she twined,
And saying, my dear, when you are on the seas,
If the fates unto us should prove cruel.
That we each other no more over see.
