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 THE CONSTANT LOVERS;

OR, TRAGICAL LOVER OF

JEMMY AND NANCY OF YARMOUTH.

PART I.

Showing how beautiful Nancy of Yarmouth fell in love with young Jemmy the Sailor. TUNE- "The Yarmouth Tragedy."

Lovers, I pray, lend an ear to my story,

Take an example by this constant pair;

How love a young virgin did blast in her glory,

Beautiful Nancy of Yarmouth we hear.

She was a merchant’s only daughter,

Heir unto fifteen hundred a-year;

A young man who courted her call’d her his jewel,

The son of a gentleman who lived near.

Many long years the fair maid he admir’d,

When they were infants in love they agreed:

And when at age this young couple arriv’d,

Cupid an arrow between them display’d.

Their tender hearts were linked together—

But when her parents the same they did hear,

They to their charming young beautiful daughter

Acted a part that was hard and severe.