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 EDWARD AND BETSY.

YOung Edward was faithful, & Beffy was true, when war call’d her foldier away, She parted in tears, and he figh’d out adieu, and they never more met from that day.

Forcourage, with Edward there’s few could compare, but his foes would not favour the brave, When dying, his Betfy alone was his care, he blelt her, then funk to his grave.

The wars were all over, ftill conftant her heart, now expcted her foldier’s return. Poor maiden, how wilt thou furvive the keen fmart, thy Edward in tears thou wilt mourn.

The news foon arriv’d that her foldier was ftain, O Edward ! fhe faulteringn cry’d, We’ll meet ia a world where, we’ll ne’er part again, then fainting, fhe droop'd and fhe dy’d.

THE LOVER’S DISAPPOINTMENT.

GIVE ear, O ye Mufas, -attend to my lay, While I in left anguihi my tears now convey; My grief it fhall found to a foreign fhore, While each tender bread for my fufferings daplore. Chorus. O why did I venture o’er, To forfake or to leave my own native fhore.

lit the year ninety-four I to England came over. To wed then with-one that I thought me ador’d, But now my fond wifHes for ever are croft, His favour and affection for ever are loft.