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                           (  4  ) When on the ocean my dear I am sailing, The thoughts of my dear the compass will steer, These tedious long days swift time will devour, And bring me safe to my sweet dear.

Therefore be constant my dearest jewel, For fot by the heavens if you are untrue, My troubled ghost shall torment you for ever, Dead or alive I will have none but you.

Her ivory arms around his neck fire twined, Remember my dear, when you are on the sea, If that the fates unto us should prove cruel, That tve each other no more ever 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 go to my dear.

Then with a sorrowful sigh he departed, The wind next morning blew a pleasant gale, All things being ready, the fam’d Mary galley, For the island of Barbadoes she straightway set sail,

While Jamie was floating upon the wide ocean, Her cruel parents were plotting all the while, How the heart of their beautifull daughter, With cursed gold they should beguile.

Many a lord of fame, birth, an breeding, Came to court this young beautifull maid ; But their rich prefents and favours she slighted, Constant I'll be to my jewel, she said.

Now for a while we will leave this fair maid, And tell how thing’s with her lover did go, In fair Barbadoes the ship safe arrived, But now observe his fatal overthrow.

Young Jamie was comely in every feature, A Barbadoes lady whose fortune was great, First fixed her eyes, then cried if 1 have not