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4 Then in his arms he cloſe did it ſold her, While chryſtal cars like a fountain did flow; Crying. My heart in return I do give you, And you ſhall be preſent wherever you go. When on the ocean. any dear I am failing, The thoughts of any jewel with the compaſs I ſteer Thele tedious long days ſwift time will devour, and bring me ſafe home to my lovely dear. Therefore be conſtant, my dear lovely jewel, For it that you fall unto me prove untrue, My troubled ghoſt ſhall torment you forever; Dead or alive I will have none but you. Her lovely arms round his neck ſhe twined, Saying, My dear, when you are on the ſeas, If that the waves into us ſhould prove cruel, That we each other. no more may ſee. No man alive ſhall ever enjoy me, Soon is the tidings of deach reach my ear, Then like a poor unfortunate lover, Down to the grave I will go to my dear Then with a ſorowfal ſigh he departes; The wind next morning blow a pleaſant gale; All things being ready, the farm'd Mary Galley Away for Barbadoes the ſtraightway ſet fail. Jamie was flating 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 fane birth and breeding, Came for to court this young beautiful maid ; But theſe rich preſents and proffer's ſhe ſlighted Conſtant I'll be to my jewel, ſhe ſaid,