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 THE SAILOR'S TRAGEDY.

I AM a sailor and home I write,

And in the seas took great delight,

The female sex I did beguile

At length two were by me with child.

I promised to be true to both,

And bound myself under an oath.

To marry them if I had life,

And one of them I made my wife.

The other being left alone,

Crying, You false deluding man,

By me you’ve done a wicked thing,

Which public shame will on me bring.

Then to a silent shade she went,

Her present family for to prevent,

And soon she finish'd up the strife,

And cut her slender thread of life.

She hung herself upon a tree,

Two men a hunting did her see;

Her flesh by beasts was basely tore,

Which made the young men weep full sore.

Straight they went and cut her down.

And in her breast a note was found ;

This note was written out at large,

Bury me not, I do your charge: