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 To hear her sad news, then her eyes they did flow

He said, Noble lady, since now it is so,

There’s none here can help it, do not troubled be,

For you in short space your dear parents shall see.

And when that they came to the desired port,

The Princess came weeping to her father’s court;

Who gladly receiv’d her with joy and great mirth,

Saying, Where is the man that freed you from death?

The Captain replied, As he lay asleep,

He fell overboard, and was drown’d in the deep;

Your Grace said, he that your child home did bring,

Should have her; I hope you’ll perform this thing.

Yes, that was my promise, the Monarch replied;

What say’st thou, my daughter? wilt thou be his bride?

She said, Yes, dear father, but first if you please,

For him that sav’d my life, I'll mourn forty days.

Then into close mourning this Lady she went,

For the loss of her good friend, in tears to lament;

And there I will leave her in tears for a while,

And turn to the Factor who was left on the Isle.

In this desert Island the Factor he lay,

In floods of tears weeping two nights and a day;

At length the ocean appear’d to his view,

A little old man paddling in a canoe.

The Factor call’d to him, who caus’d him to stay,

And drawing near to him, the old man he did say,

How cam’st thou hither? With eyes that did flow,

He told him the secret, and where he would go.

The old man said to him, If here thou dost lie,

With grief and great hunger in short thou wilt die.

What wilt thou give me, to that court I’ll thee guide?

I have nothing to give you, the Factor replied.