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The Valiant Damfel.

COME all you pretty maiden’s, that's plac’d in Cupid’s chain, It’s of a brifk young damfel, was fporting on the plain, It was with her true-love Will; as fhe did fport and play, Till the prefs-gang overtook them, and prefsed her love away. With fighs and tears fhe mourned, fhe wrang and tore her hair, Crying I’m undone for evermore. for the lofing of my dear, I wifh the French may kill them, that prefs’d my love away, And fend their bodies finking for ever on the fea. She dreft her felf much like a duke, with flar upon her breaft, Swore fhe would kill the captain if he did her moleft. Her life fhe boldly ventur’d, for her true love fo brave, Refolved fhe would be his wife, or the feas fhould be her grave, But when fhe came up to them before they fail’d away, She called for the captain, and bade him for ro ftay,