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 (4) Now messmates we’ve got safe to port, for I am safely married, I hope my lads we’ll have some sport, and crown the day with claret; My frigate she is rigged tight, With silks and rings, most gay and bright, I’ll swear my lass to board to night And prove myself a sailor. 



THE DROWNED MARINER.

The love that I have chosen, I’ll therewith be content, The salt seas shall be frozen, before that I repent, Repent it shall never; until the day I die, But the lowlands of Holland, hath twin’d my love and me.

My love is on the salt sea, and I’m upon the side, ’Nough to breag a yonng thing’s heart, who lately was a bride, Who lately was a bonny bride, most pleasant for to see