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(4) Crying my heart in return I give you,
 * and you ſhall be preſent wherever I go

When on the ocean, my dear I am ſailling.
 * the thought of my jewel the compaſs will ſteer

Therefore be conſtant my deareſt jewel,
 * for by the heavens if you are untrue.

My troubled ghoſt will torment you for ever.
 * dead or alive I will have you.

Her ivory arms around his neck ſhe twin'd,
 * remember my dear when you're on the ſea,

If that the fates upon us prove cruel,
 * that we each other no more will ſee.

No man alive ſhall ever enjoy me,
 * ſoon as the tidings of death rings in my ear,

Then like a poor unfortunate lover,
 * down to the grave I will follow my dear,

Then with a ſorrowful ſigh he departed,
 * the wind nex morning blew a pleaſant gale,

All things being ready the fam'd Mary galley.
 * and for Barbadoes the ſraight did fail,

As Jamie was floating upon the wide ocean,
 * her cruel parents was ploting all the while,

How the heart of their beautiful daughter,
 * with curſed gold they ſhould beguile.

Many a lord of fame birth and breeding,
 * came for to court this beautiful maid,

But their rich preſents and favours ſhe ſlighted,
 * conſtant I'll be to my jewel ſhe ſaid,

Now for a while we leave this fair maid.
 * and tell how things with her lover did go,

In fair Barbadoes he ſafe arrived,
 * But now obſerve his fatal overthrow,