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                          (  6  ) To serve the land and nation,

still with a warlike train,

And make them truly happy

tiii they return again.

The W I D O W'S L A M E N T

G O O D Christian people pity me And listen to my tragedy, My case is hard I do declare, My trouble’s' more than i can bear.

Part of my fight I lately lost, And many pounds it has me cost; Now poverty stares me in the face, To do this work is no disgrace.

My husband he is dead and gone; And I am left to make my moan. No friend but God, i tell you true, My sorrow’s,great: What shall I do ?

Cook in the Venus he did go, And fail’d with Captain Smith also : A foreigner indeed was he, But a tender husband unto me.

In March he did this life depart, Which cuts tne to the very heart ; Behold a Widow in distress, And my poor Infant fatherless.

The Captain let me understand, Between Jamaica and England