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

For thou in space your dear parents shall see

And when that they came to the desired port,

This Princess came weeping to her father's court,

Who gladly received her with joy and great mirth,

Saying Where is the man that freed you from death.

The captain reply'd, as he lay asleep,

He fell overboard and was drowned in the deep:

Your Grace said the man your child home did bring,

Would have her, I hope you'll perform this thing

Yes, that was my promise, the Monarch replied;

What say'st thou, 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.

N this desert island the Factor he lay,

In floods of tears weeping two nights and a day

At length on the ocean appear'd in his view,

A little old man paddling in a canoe.

The Factor call'd to him, which caus'd him to stay,

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

Friend, how cam'st thou hither? with eyes that did flow

He told him the secret and where he would go.

That old man said to him, if here thou dost lie,

With grief and hunger in short thou wilt die:

What wilt thou give me, if so that court I'll thee guide?

I have nothing to give you, the Factor reply'd.

If thou wilt promise, and be true to me.

To give the first babe that is born unto thee,

When thirty months old, to that court I'll thee bring,

I will not relcaserelease [sic] you without that very thing.