%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> THE / DOVER Lovers: / OR, / A pleasant Dialogue between Jonathan, a cou- / ragious Seaman, and Susan his [de]ar Mistress, a little / before his Departure. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 0 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 02/26/2008 22187

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5.363 R174719 1 The little Girls Wish The Little Girl's Wish FAre you well, adieu my Dear, / For I must be gone this Year, tune: 'u' in 'tune' is inverted: looks like 'n'; 1st lines: 'u' in 'must' is inverted: looks like 'n' Pepys 5.363 Wing D2053[A] 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. 5: 363 THE / DOVER Lovers: / OR, / A pleasant Dialogue between Jonathan, a cou- / ragious Seaman, and Susan his [de]ar Mistress, a little / before his Departure. THE DOVER Lovers: OR, A pleasant Dialogue between Jonathan, a cou- ragious Seaman, and Susan his [de]ar Mistress, a little before his Departure. The Dover Lovers: Or, a Pleasant Dialogue between Jonathan, a Courageous Seaman, and Susan His Dear Mistress, a Little before His Departure. 1/2 sheet folio, 230 x 150 cropped right and bottom edges, uneven inking horizontal rule 0 LONDON: Printed for Elias Lambert, in Hatten-garden. Elias Lambert

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Seamen. FAre you well, adieu my Dear, For I must be gone this Year, Time draws on a kindly Spring, And I must go to serve the King; Mounsieur now begins to move, And I must be gone, my Love; When the warlike Season's o'er, I'll return, I'll return to the English-shore. Maid. But my Joy and Heart's delight, What if you be slain in Fight, For the thoughts of killing Gun, Makes me now destracted run; Stay, then stay, I beg of thee, Venter not beyond the Sea, For there's thousands cross the Main, And ne'r doth, and ne'r doth return again. Seamen. Honor calls, I must away, Yet Love bids me for to stay; Why should I then fear a Storm, When thy Beauty hath a Charm? The Gods will guard me I don't fear, For the sake of thee, my Dear; When the Battle once is done, To thy arms, to they arms, my Love, I'll come. Maid. Oh! the thoughts of dreadful Fight, Does disturb me Day and Night; If you are resolv'd to go, Let me put on Man's Cloaths too,
And your Servant I will be, To fight against the Enemy, And when the Foes about you swarm, I will guard, I will guard you from all harm. Seaman. Thanks a thousand times, my Dear, For thy Love and for thy Care, Better thousands of us kill'd, Then one drop of thy Blood spill'd; Take this Ring and Jewel too, In token that I will be true; Then they in each others arms Hug'd and kist, hug'd and kist a thousand charms. Maid. But my Dear, one word with thee Before that you do go to Sea: Be sure you careful are, said she, Of your health, and think on me When that you are parted hence; The Gods above by thy Defence, To return thee safe to me, To live in Love, to live in Love and Unity. Seaman. If it please the Gods above To return me home, my Love, We in Marriage-bonds will sing, And get a Boy to serve the King; In my arms I will thee keep, And ne'er return unto the deep, And for thy sake I'll leave the Seas, And live with thee, and live with thee in Wealth and Ease.
LONDON: Printed for Elias Lambert, in Hatten-garden.