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R216216 9 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN Fare well my Love He That Loves Best Must Suffer Most Farewell My Love YOU loyal Lovers far and neat, / A true Relation you shall hear, Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 3: 272 3: 273 THE / Ship Carpenter's Love / TO THE / Merchants Daughter: THE Ship Carpenter’s Love TO THE Merchants Daughter: THE Ship Carpenter’s Love TO THE Merchant's Daughter ?-?

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YOU loyal Lovers far and near, A true Relation you shall hear, Of a young Cople, who provd to be A Pattern of true Loyalty. A Merchant dos in Bristol dwell, As many People know full well; He has a Daughter, a Beauty bright, In whom he placd his Hearts delight. He had on child, but only she; Her Father lovd her tenderly. Many to court her thith[e]r came Gallonts of worthy birth and fame,
Yet notwithstanding all their Love; A young Ship-Carpenter did prove To be the Master of her Heart: She often said Well never part As long as Life and Breath remain, Thy Company Ill not refrain; No cursed Gold and Silver bright Shall make me wrong my Hearts delight. Now when her Father came to know His Daughter lovd this young Man so, He causd him to be prest to Sea, To keep her from his Company.
Which when this Damsel came to hear, Without the thoughts of dread or fear, She drest her self in Seamans hue, And after him she did persue. Unto the Captain she did go, And said, Right Worthy Sir, tis so, You do want Men, I understand, Im free to fight with Heart and Hand, The Captain straitway did reply, Young Man, youre welcome heartily: A Guinea in her Hand he gave; She passed for a Seaman brave. Soon after this, the Ship set sail, And with a fair and pleasant gale; But this Ship-Carpenter, (her dear) Did little think his Love so near. She then appeared for to be A Person of no mean [d]egree; With pretty Fingers long and strait: She soon became the Surgeons Mate. It happend so, that this same Ship. At stroming of the Town of Diepe, She lay at Anchor something nigh, Where Cannon-Bullets they did fly.
Then the first Man that wounded were, Was this young bold Ship-Carpenter; When Drums did beat, and Trumpets sound He in his Breast received a Wound. Then to the Surgeons care was he Brought down with speed immediately; Whereas the pretty Surgeons Mate, Did courteously upon him wait. She drest the woful wounded Part; Altho, the sight did pierce her Haert; She then did use her utmost skill, To cure him with a right good Will: She curd him in a little space, He often gazd upon her Face. Surgeon, said he, such Eyes as thine Did formerly my Heart confine. If ere I live to go on Shore, And she be dead whom I adore, I will your true Company be, And neer forsake thy Company. If she be dead, thus will I do, All Female Sex Ill bid adieu: And nere will marry for her sake, But to the Seas my [se]lf betake.