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                        (  2  ) The Turkish Lady.

YOUNG Virgins all I prav draw near A pretty story you shall hear. It's of a Turkish lady brave, Who fell in love with an English slave, A merchant ship in Bristol lay, As they were sailing on the sea. By a Turkifh rover took were we, And all of us made slaves to be.

They bound us down in irons strong They whip’d and slash ' us all along No tongue can tell I'm certain saure, What we poor sailors do endure, Come sit you down and listen a while, And her how fortune on i im did smile It was his fortune for to be, A slave unto a rich lady,

She drest herself in rich array, And went to view her slaves one day, Hearing the moan this young man made She went to him and thus she said, What countryman young man are you, I’m an Englishman madam madam that’s true