%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Seamans sorrowful Bride. / See here the constant mournful Bride, / In sorrow doth complain, / For fear her joy and hearts delight, / Should ne'r return again. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1671-1702 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 08/14/2008 21855

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4.193 R234652 1 Ah Ienny Gin Jenny Gin Ah Jenny Gin MY Love is on the Brackish Sea, / and I am on this side, and part my Love and I [with variations; not stanzas 11-13] Another edition at Pepys 3.58v Pepys 4.193 Wing S2198 Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 4: 193 The Seamans sorrowful Bride. / See here the constant mournful Bride, / In sorrow doth complain, / For fear her joy and hearts delight, / Should ne'r return again. The Seamans sorrowful Bride. See here the constant mournful Bride, In sorrow doth complain, For fear her joy and hearts delight, Should ne'r return again. The Seaman's Sorrowful Bride. See Here the Constant Mournful Bride, in Sorrow Doth Complain, for Fear Her Joy and Heart's Delight, Should Never Return Again. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, ?215 x 333 cropped all edges, creased surface vertical rule and cast fleurons 1671-1702 Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guiltspur-street without Newgate. J. Deacon Spufford and BBTI

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 Taxonomy used by Pepys to Organize Ballads in Albums A Small Promiscuous Supplement Devotion & Morality Drinking & Good Fellowship History - True & Fabulous Humour, Frollicks &c Love Pleasant Love Pleasant and Unfortunate Love Unfortunate Marriage Sea State & Times Tragedy Various Subjects Early Modern Center Ballad Project Keyword Taxonomy advice affliction/health alcohol animals/nature appearance Bible/biblical figures buildings/architecture catastrophe children class clothing/fashion country/nation crime death economics/trade entertainment family/procreation folklore gender historical figures & events holidays/seasons infidelity law London love maritime marriage military/war monstrosity mythology/Classical world news nobility/court politics/government punishment religious concepts religious figures religious types & sects royalty rural life servitude sex/sexuality supernatural/magic The New World travel trickery/deceit urban life vice violence virtue vulgarities/crass humor Library of Congress Subject Heading Taxonomy 8/14/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Sea love maritime marriage mythology/Classicalworld 08/14/08 Checker Rachel Mann Metadata updated, xml created 07/02/07 Checker Rachel Mann Ballad Checked 2006 Transcriber Summer Star Original Transcription 10/29/2004 Bibliographer Liberty Stanavage Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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MY Love is on the Brackish Sea, and I am on this side, 'Twould break a poor young creatures heart that lately was a Bride: That lately was a joyful Bride, so pleasant to the eye, But Hollands Land doth me withstand, and part my Love and I. The Love that I in heart have chose, I am therewith content, The floating Sea shall dryed be, before I will repent:
But cruel Fate my joys arrest, it cannot helped be, Whilst I do cry, most mournfully, fate parts my love and me. O gentle Neptune be so kind, to send him back again, He ne'r will be out of my mind, that now hath crost the Main: Oh hapless Bride, so soon to loose, the pleasure of thine eye, But riged fate, my bliss doth hate, and parts my love and I.
No sleep shall give my troubled mind, a comfortable hour, For while my love is on the main, fears do my joy devour: And e'ry blast that blows I fear, my Love should drowned lye, But 'tis a grief beyond relief, so love for thee i'le dye. Oh! cruel fate too much unkind, why dost thou serve me so, Give ease to my distressed mind, and banish all my woe: For I will never be at rest, till I my love do see, Then gentle wind, be sure be kind, ne'r part my love and me. You sturdy Rocks besure give way, and let my love sail by, For if he should be made your prey, in what a case were I: Or if the waves should cruel prove, which I ne'r hope to spy, I should be lost, and strangely crost, to part my Love and I. Blow wind and send a happy Gale, that he may home return, If thou but fill his prosperous Sail, I need no longer mourn, My happiness will be compleat, when him I chance to see, Now I lament in discontent, since Fate parts him and me. You powerful Stars that Mortals rule, mind but my sad complaint, And send me home my Love again, that now am like to faint: I sigh, I pant, I waste away, no pleasures can I see, Since my delight, is out of sight, and fate parts him and me.
Now must I blame the cruel wind, That sent my love away, O fates, why were you so unkind, as not to let him stay: Just in the bud of all my joys, could you so cruel be, To banish hence, my Love, my Prince and part my Love and me. Is it in vain to sigh and mourn, unhappy then am I, Or now because I am forlorn, must I in sorrow dye: No, no, I hope there's joys in store, that I may live to see, Though now opprest, I may be blest; Heavens bless my Love and me. The Seamans Answer. LEave off thy tears my only joy, since I am safe arriv'd, Let not this grief my Love destroy, nor be of hopes depriv'd; For i'le imbrace thee in my arms, and fill thee with such bliss, That Venus with her dallying charms envies our happiness. Though I upon the Seas was tost, when absent to my dear. Fearing each moment to be lost, yet this my comfort were, That I should safe again return, which now I find is true, And since I in loves passion burn, I bid the Seas adieu. Now we will revel day and night, within each others arms, In thee shall be my chief delight, i'le shield thee from all harms: Kindly thy body i'le embrace, and ever constant be, No other joys shall e're take place, i'le live and dye with thee.
Printed for J. Deacon, at the Angel in Guiltspur-street without Newgate.