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 I've ſeen him far enough away from the ſhore,

Where waves do foam and billows do roar;

You may now ſeek another as faſt as you pleaſe,

But as for your old love I've ſent him to the ſeas.

The young man immediately fell to the ground,

Pretending as if he had been in a ſwoon;

In a paſſion then ſmiting his hand on his ſide,

What have you done cruel mafter! he cried.

Masſter with a vengeance, the old man reply’d,

Yes, yes, you're my maſter, the young man he cry’d,

O pray be but eaſy, and to you I'll tell,

The ſaddeſt misfortune that ever befel.

When my miſtreſs heard I to London muſt go,

She crav’d, nay, begg’d and intreated me ſo,

To be dreſs’d in my clothes for to go with you,

Becauſe ſhe had a mind that city to view

Adzooks ſays the old man, what have I done?

I have ruin’d my daughter. O where ſhall I run?

The devil's bewitch’d me for coveting gold,

The life of my innocent daughter I've ſold.

The old man ran raving away to the barn,

And ſnatching a halter under his arm,

To a beam near at hand he immediately run,

With a rope round his neck away he ſwung.

The young man immediately whipp’d out his knife

And cut him down e’er he finiſhed his life;

Said, Dear Sir, have patience and not complain,

And I’ll do what I can for to bring her again,

The old man he ſtar’d like a fox in a ſnare,

Sayin, Bring my darling whom I love ſo dear,

And that very minute you bring her to town,

That moment I'll pay thee five hundred pound.

Nay, that is not all, for to finiſh the ſtrife,

I freely agree for to make her your wife,