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

For thou in short 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 replied, as he lay asleep,

He fell over board and was drown'd in the deep:

Your Grace, said the man, that 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, my daughter? wilt thou be his bride?

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

For him that saved 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 return to the Factor who was left on the isle.

ON this desert island the Factor he lay,

In floods of tears, weeping two nights and a day,

At length on the ocean appeard 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 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 a short thou wilt die,

What wilt thou give if to that court I thee guide,

I have nothing to give you the Factor replied.

If thou wilt but 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 the bring,

I will not release you without that very thing.