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 Then in his arms he close did enfold her,

While crystal tears like a fountain did flow,

Crying, my heart in return I do give you,

And you shall be present wherever I go.

When on the ocean, I am sailing,

The thoughts of my jewel with the compass I steer,

These tedious long days swift time will devour,

And bring me home safe to my lovely dear.

Therefore be constant, my dear lovely jewel,

For if that ye shall unto me prove untrue,

My troubled ghost shall torment you for ever;

Dead or alive I will have none but you.

Her lovely arms round his neekneck [sic] she twined,

Saying, my dear, when you are on the seas,

If that the waves unto us should prove eruelcruel [sic],

That we eaeheach [sic] other no more may see,

No man alive shall ever enjoy me,

Soon as the tidings of death reaehreach [sic] my ear,

Then, like a poor unfortunate lover,

Down to the grave I will go to my dear.

Then with a sorrowful sigh he departed ;

The wind the next morning blew a pleasant gale ;

All things being ready, the fam’d Mary Galley

Away for Barbadoes she straightway set sail.

Jemmy was floating upon the wide ocean,

And her cruel parents were plotting the while,

How that the heart of their beautiful daughter,

With cursed gold they should strive to beguile.

Many a lord of fame, birth, and breeding,

Came for to court this young beautiful maid ;

But their riehrich [sic] presents and proffers she slighted.

Constant I'll be to my jewel, she said.