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 O pity my infant and ſpare my, ſweet life, Let me go diſtreſſed ſince I'm not to be your wife, O take not my life leſt my ſoul you betray, MnſtMuſt [sic] I in my youth thus be hurried away Her hand white as lillies in ſorrow ſhe wrung, Intreating for mercy ſaying What have I done, To you my dear Will, what makes you ſo ſevere, To murder your true love that you lov'd ſo dear. He ſaid, there's no time diſputing to ſtand, He inſtantly then took his knife in his hand, He pierced her breaſt while the blood it did flow, And into the grave her fair body did throw. He covered the body and home he did come, Leaving none but the birds her death to bemoan, On board of the Bedford he enter'd ſraightway, Which lay at Portſmouth and bound for the ſea. For Carpenter s Mate he was enter d we hear. Fit for the voyage away then to ſteer; But as in the cabin one night he lay, The voice of his true love he heard for to ſay, O perjur'd William! awake now and hear, The words of your true love that loved you ſo dear, The ſhip out of Portſmouth it never ſhall go, Till I be reveng'd of my ſad overthrow. This ſpoken ſhe vaniſh'd with ſhrieks and with cries, The flashes of lightning did dart in her eyes, Which put the ſhips crew in a terrible fear, Tho' none ſaw the ghoſt the voice they did hear, Charles Stewart a man of courage ſo bold, One night as he was going down to the hold, A beautiful damſel to him did appear, And ſhe in her arms had a baby ſo dear. Being merry in drink he went to embrace The charms of this ſo lovely a face But to his surpriſe ſhe vaniſh'd away, He went to the captain without more delay