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(6) To hear the sad news then her eyes they did flow

He said, Noble Lady, now since 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 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 thee from death?

The Captain reply’d, 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 reply'd,

What say’ll 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.

IV.

N this desart island the Factor he lay,

In floods of tears weeping two nights and a day;

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

A little old man padling 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.

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 if to that court I ll thee guide,

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