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6 Her vows she renewed, and with tears not a few, And a gold ring on's finger as a token she drew, Which was not to move, eomecome [sic] death or eomecome [sic] life, Till that happy moment he made her his wife. She fain would go with him but he answered no, For your parents would follow and eausecause [sic] us more woe. My Maker be witness, and this green oak, said he, That I never shall love a woman but thee.

And there then he left her a-weeping full sore, Poor ereaturecreature [sic] she never got sight of him more, For in a short time thereafter he went to the sea, And left the sight of Britain with the tear in his eye, And went to AmerieaAmerica [sic], their orders being so, There proved a gallant soldier, and valour did show; That for his good behaviour they ne'er could him blame From a Corporal to a Sergeant he became.

PART III.

Being near Fort Niagara in the year fifty-nine, On the thirtieth of July, as he always did inelineincline [sic] To frequent the green-wood, at some distant place, To breathe out his sorrows his mind to solaeesolace [sic]. Among the savage Indians, alas! there he fell, But how he was murdered we cannot well tell, For on the next morning they found him there dead. Two Indians lay by him wanting their heads,

Cut off with his broad-sword as is understood, As there all about him was nothing but blood;