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 There's none here 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,

The 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 overboard and was drown'd in the deep.

Your GraeeGrace [sic] 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, 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 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 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 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 does lie,

With grief and hunger in short thou wilt die:

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

I have nothing to give you, the Factor replied.

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 release you without that very thing.