%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Perjured Sayler: / OR, THE / Fosraken Damsel. / GIVING / An ACCOUNT of a Young MAID at GREENWICH, who died for Love of a / SEAMAN, who after many Vows and Solemn Promises left her, so that with Grief / she broke her Heart. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1693 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 02/22/2008 22195

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5.371 R234521 1 The Languishing Swain He That Loves Best Must Suffer Most The Languishing Swain COme listen while I do Relate, / A Damsel's most Unhappy Fate; date from imprint; verso pasted down. Pepys 5.371 Rollins (1) VII:35-38; Wing P1538[a]B 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: 371 The Perjured Sayler: / OR, THE / Fosraken Damsel. / GIVING / An ACCOUNT of a Young MAID at GREENWICH, who died for Love of a / SEAMAN, who after many Vows and Solemn Promises left her, so that with Grief / she broke her Heart. The Perjured Sayler: OR, THE Fosraken Damsel. GIVING An ACCOUNT of a Young MAID at GREENWICH, who died for Love of a SEAMAN, who after many Vows and Solemn Promises left her, so that with Grief she broke her Heart. The Perjured Sailor: Or, the Forsaken Maid. Giving an Account of a Young Maid at Greenwich, Who Died for Love of a Seaman, Who after Many Vows and Solemn Promises Left Her, so that with Grief She Broke Her Heart. 1/2 sheet folio, 288 x 170 uneven inking, verso shows through framed with funerary borders 1693 LONDON: Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking-glass on London-bridge, 1693. J. Blare Weinstein: imprint

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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 2/22/2008 Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Sea advice affliction/health death infidelity London love maritime 02/22/08 Checker Rachel Mann Updated metadata, created xml 08/02/07 Checker Rachel Mann Checked transcription 09/18/06 Transcriber Paxton Hehmeyer Original transcription 10/24/2004 Bibliographer Maggie Sloan Bibliographic SQL Database Record Created
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COme listen while I do Relate, A Damsel's most Unhappy Fate; Caus'd by a most Uufaithful Love, Which did her utter Ruin prove: All Truth and upright Purity, Is turn'd to perfect Pergury: Nay, further still, declare I can, No Creature is so false as Man: As by this Ditty you shall find, And therefore listen now and mind, While I in brief do here express, A Sea-man's most Unfaithfulness: In Greenwich-Town he courted there, A Damsel beautiful and fair, And many Protestations made, Till he her yielding Heart betray'd: He vow'd her Chrams he did adore, And while he did remain on shore, It was his chief Delight to be In her sweet pleasant Company. The Damsel she was coy and strange, Declaring, That she would not change A single life, for that was best; So bid him set his heart at rest. Be not so cruel then, he cry'd, I can't, nor will not be deny'd; Therefore one word of comfort give; Without thy love I cannot live. Said she, Your words I can't believe, Young Men are Subject to deceive The Wise, Discreet, and Vertuous too; Therefore, said she, Farewel, ad[i]eu. Then did he smite upon his breast, Like one who was with Grief opprest, And cry'd, Return, return, my Dear, My final Res[o]l[u]tion hear: If I may not thy Charms enjoy, This life of mine I will destroy, Or else I'll quit my native Shore, And never see the Nation more.
This word a deep Imperssion made Upon her Heart, she sighing said, If you are Loyal, Just, and True, I will no[t]strive to ruin you. He swore by all the Powers above That he'd be Loyal to his Love: At which she did a Promise make, Till death she'd never him forsake. This done, away to Sea he went, From whence he four kind Letters sent, In which he did his Love express, With all the Marks of Faithfulness. Yet when he came on shore again, Her Company he did refrain: When told of his Disloyalty, She sighing cry'd, It cannot be. Yet to her Grief she found it true: Then did she cry, I never knew, In all my days, so false a Wetch. With that, a double sigh she'd fetch. Her H[e]art with inward Grief was fill'd, Her Eyes soft pearlly Tears distil; Then ringing of her hands, she said, False Man, thou hast my Life betray'd: Is this the Wretch that vow'd and cry'd, If longer I his Suite deny'd, That his Destruction was at hand, He'd die, or leave his Native Land. Yet, this is he! yet let him know, He may not thus unpunisht go, When I am dead his Perjury May on his guilty Conscience lye. Soon after this her Heart-strings broke, And these was the last words she spoke: The Letters which he sent from Sea, Let them lye in the Grave with me. Having surrender'd up her breath Unto the fatal stroke of Death, Soft showers of melting Tears did fall To selebrate her Funeral.
LONDON: Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking-glass on London-bridge, 1693.