The faithful marriner: or, A copy of verses writ by a seaman on board the Britania in the streights, and directed to fair Isabel, his loyal love, in the city of London. Tune of, The false-hearted young man: or, the Lauguishing [sic] swain. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B03196 of text R227626 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing E3835). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B03196 Wing E3835 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.39.k.6[59] 99887438 ocm99887438 182145 2240884829

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B03196) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182145) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A3:1[59]) The faithful marriner: or, A copy of verses writ by a seaman on board the Britania in the streights, and directed to fair Isabel, his loyal love, in the city of London. Tune of, The false-hearted young man: or, the Lauguishing [sic] swain. 1 sheet ([1] p.). Printed for J[osiah]. Blare, on London-bridge., London: : [between 1684-1690] Date of publication and publisher's name from Wing. Verse: "Fair Isabel of beauty bright ..." Printed in two columns. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo The faithful marriner: or, A copy of verses writ by a seaman on board the Britania in the streights, and directed to fair Isabel, his loyal love, in t anon 1690 1 537 2 0 0 0 0 0 37.24 D The rate of 37.24 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-02 Sampled and proofread 2009-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Faithful Marriner : OR , A Copy of VERSES Writ by a Seaman on Board the Britania in the Streights , and directed to fair Isabel , his loyal Love , in the City of London . Tune of , The False-hearted Young Man : or , The Languishing Swain . FAir Isabel of beauty bright , To thee in love these lines I write , Hoping thou art alive and well , As I am now , as I am now , Fair Isabel . On board the brave Britannia bold , I have the fortune to behold , The sweet delightful banks of Spain , While in the Streights , while in the Streights We do remain . The Spanish lords of high renown , And gentery come swarming down , To see the British royal Fleet , With swelling sails , with swelling sails , And streamers sweet . While we appear'd in all our pride , The seas was ne'er so beautifi'd , With able men of war before , Along the streights , along the streights And Spanish-shore . We have no storms nor weather foul , To make the roaring billows roul , But pleasant breathing gentle gales , Enough to fill , enough to fill Our swelling sails . Along the coast of Barbery , The Algerine they flock'd to see Our warlike Fleet of royal fame , And stood amaz'd , and stood amaz'd To see the same . The longer they the Fleet beheld , The more they were with wonder fill'd ; As knowing we were Britains bold , And that the French , and that the French Fa●se tales had told . For Turvil made the Turk believe , That he no damage could receive ; For of a truth he did declare , That masters of , that masters of The seas they were . This will for truth no longer go , For Turvil fears great Russel so , That for Thoulon he stear'd away ; He han't forgot , he han't forgot The month of May. With Russel he is loath to deal , For fear a second warlike peal Should shake their whole foundation so , That it might prove , that it might prove Their overthrow . Once more my dear and tender dove , Fair Isabel , my loyal love , Except of these few lines I send , Who will remain , who will remain Your faithful friend . Tho we are separated now , I 'll not forget that solemn vow , Made when I left my native land , To go on board , to go on board Under command . Then dearest do not grieve nor mourn , With patience wait my safe return ; And then we 'll both united be , In lasting bonds , in lasting bonds , Of loyalty . The figure of a heart I send , And round the same these lines are penn'd : The chain of love has link'd it fast , So long as l●fe , so long as life And breath shall last .

LONDON : Printed for J. Blare , on London-bridge .