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( 8 ) If I would leave my master’s hay,

he'd give me no wage and turn me away.

With sweet compliments they both went

this fair maid gave him whole consent

Cast off her gown and flung by her rake

and went with her sailor to yonder wake.

When they came to yonder wake,

he treated her with sweet wine and cake.

He bought her ribbans rings and gloves,

and soon he gain’d this fair maid’s love.

When twenty weeks were gone and past,

her rosy cheeks were pile and wan,

She curs’d the hour likewise the day,

she went with the sailor to yonder wake.

When fourty weeks were gone and past

her rosy cheeks as red as the rose,

She bless’d the hour likewise the day,

she went with the sailor to yonder wake.

Here’s a health to all these holand smocks

red rosy cheeks and curly locks

And all the lassies that lies with a sailor,

and is never affraid of a sailor's looks.

S.