The sea-mans doleful farewel; or, the Greenwich lovers mournful departure See here the pattern of true love, which absence cannot stain; and nothing shall his mind remove, till he returns again. Tune of, State and ambition. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B43805 of text R182577 in the English Short Title Catalog. 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. 6KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B43939 489265459 ocn 489265459 Wing S2187

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 eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo The sea-mans doleful farewel; or, the Greenwich lovers mournful departure :See here the pattern of true love, which absence cannot stain; and nothing n/a 1685 2 926 15 0 0 0 0 0 161.99 F The rate of 161.99 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-10 Sampled and proofread 2014-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE Sea-mans doleful Farewel ; Or , The Greenwich Lovers mournful Departure . See here the Pattern of true Love , which abs●nce cannot stain ; And nothing shall his mind remove , till he returns again . Tune of , State and Ambition .

This may be Printed ,

R. P.

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Man . FArewel my dearest Love , now must I leave thee ▪ to the East-Indies my Course I must steer , And when I think upon 't lore it doth grie●e me , let nothing possess thee w●th doubt or with fear ; or I 'le be Loyal unto thee for ever , and , like to the Turtle , will constant remain , Nothing but cruel Death our Love shall fever , but we will be married when I come again . Maid . nd must we , by Fortune , thus strangely be parted ? what dost thou think will become then of me ? ●ho must continue here quite broken-hearted , let me thy true Love now venture with thee : ●ear not the dangers that wait on the Ocean , ●y troubles will greater be here on the Shore , to thy true Love now grant what she doth mention , ●o else greatly fears she shall see thee no more . Man . With dangers on Seas thou art little acquainted , for when the winds blow , and the billows do roar , I fear th●e ( my true Love ) will greatly be dounted , then let me intreat thee to stay on the Shore : My heart in thy breast I will sure leave behind me , and thou of my Constancy ne're shall complain , A Pattern of true Love thou ever shalt find me , and we will be married when I come again . Maid . How many , like thee , that are constant and loyal , do venture to Sea , and do never return ? Then grant me my sute and make no more denyal , for I in thine absence for ever shall mourn : Oh like to a Sea-Boy let me be attired , and talk not of leaving me here on the Shore , Thy Company by me so much is desired , that sure I should dye should I see thee no more .

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Man . Cease , my true Love , and no more do perswade me , ●hy shouldst thou run hazards just now in thy prime ? Thy true Love for ever blind Cupid hath made me , and then to the top-mast i 'm sure cannot climb ; Thy Lilly white hand cannot handle the tackle , the pitch and the tar on thy palms will remain , Tho' now thou art fetter'd in ●upids strong shac●le , yet we will be married when I come again . Maid . Go then , my trur Love , and Heave●s great blessing ( where e're thou dost sail ) still upon thee attend , Love is a pleasure beyond all expressing , and Neptune , my dearest , I pray thee defend : For if in mine absence my Love should mi●carry , whom I for his Virtues do so much adore , Then I of my life without doubt should be weary , and pine to my grave should I see thee more . Man . Come be of good comfort and grieve not my dearest , for I am as loth from my Love to depart , Heaven can prevent all the dangers thou fearest , then let not such jealousies trouble thy heart : For should I behold all the Beauties in Venice . yet still to my Dear I would constant remain , And nothing shall cause any difference between us , but we will be married when I come again . Maid . I long for that hour and covet the minute when Hymen my true love and me shall unite : I surfeit to think of the pleasure there 's in it , 't is comfort by day , but far sweeter by night , When we like true lovers shall joyn our poor face and find such delight as I ne'r knew before , T is for certain a bliss for to lye in embraces , and then I will part with my true Love no more . Man . Well now the wind serves , in despight I must leave thee , but at our farewel let us change a sweet kiss : Again I do swear I will never deceive thee , and hope at the last to enjoy what I wish ; Still h●ping that Fortune will show me such favour that I may be prosperous on the Salt Main , My true love in sorrow I fear for to leave her , but hope to enjoy her when I come again . Maid . Then down their poor cheeks the salt Tears they did trickle , whole vollies of sighs from their breasts there did fly , At last he prevailed by little and little that he might be gone , and she could not deny : But kisses at parting were wonderful plenty , and needs it must be that it grieved them sore , Tears they did drop till their eyes they were empty , for fear she her true love should never see more .

Printed for I. Deacon at the Angel in Guilt-spur-street without Newgate .