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Patricia Fumerton Early Modern Center - English Department University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93105 United States of America EMail: pfumer@english.ucsb.edu

5.368 R183645 1 I love you dearly, I love you well: Or, Languishing Swain He That Loves Best Must Suffer Most I Love You Dearly, I Love You Well; Or, Languishing Swain VVHen I went early in the spring, / On Board a ship to serve the King, Pepys 5.368 Wing S2186 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: 368 THE / Sea-man's Complaint / FOR / His Unkind Mistress / Of Wapping. THE Sea-man's Complaint FOR His Unkind Mistress Of Wapping. The Seaman's Complaint for His Unkind Mistress of Wapping. 1/2 sheet folio, 220 x 160 damaged surface, uneven inking vertical rule 0 Printed for Charles Barnet. Charles Barnet

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WHen I went early in the spring, On Board a ship to serve the King, I left my dearest Love behind, Who said her heart for e're was mine. Her Love appear'd most true to be, And she on board would go with me, She went as far as the Boy i'th' Nore, And then return'd back to the shore. Oft-times I hug'd her in my Arms, I thought she had a thousand Charms, Our vows we bound with kisses sweet, To Marry next time we did meet. A golden Chain I did present, She seemed very well content, She sigh'd, and said, it breaks my Heart, To think my love and I must part. While I was sailing on the Sea, I took all opportunity, To send Letters unto my Dear, But yet from her I ne're could hear. When we were Booming of a Town, Where Cannon-balls flew up and down, I'th' worst of all those Dangers there, My thoughts was still upon my Dear. But since we are returned home, My Love I went to wait upon, Who did in Wapping dwell of late, And now has made me unfortunate.
For when I to her Father came, And ask'd for my Love by her Name, Her Father churlishly did cry, Sir, all your Love she does defie. Said I, what mean you Sir by this? To tell you true, she wedded is, To a rich old Man for all her life, And you may look for another wife. Curst on all false love where e're it be, A curse on all such Perjury: A curse on those who e're do make Or break a Vow for Riches sake. A curse on gold and silver too, A curse upon that Miser, who Has made his Daughter change her mind, Oh! womens tongues are like the wind. Adieu all comfort of my life, Adieu the Pleasures of a wife; Adieu all false hearts here on shore, For I will ne're see England more. I'll go where Bombs and Cannons play, Where they ne'er cease both night nor day I'll range the seas until I die, Where waves are tossing mountains high. Since I have lost my hearts delight, I bid unto the world good night, I'd rather be where Bullets fly, Than in a womans company.
Printed for Charles Barnet.