%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> AN EXCELLENT NEW / SONG / ENTITULED, / The Distracted Sailor, / OR, / His Courtship to Mally his perjured Lover. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/15/2014 34351

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T200438 OH! how pleasant are Young Lovers, / When their Courtships first begin, Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 117 AN EXCELLENT NEW / SONG / ENTITULED, / The Distracted Sailor, / OR, / His Courtship to Mally his perjured Lover. AN EXCELLENT NEW SONG ENTITULED, The Distracted Sailor, OR, His Courtship to Mally his perjured Lover. AN EXCELLENT NEW SONG ENTITLED, The Distracted Sailor, OR, His Courtship to Mally his perjured Lover. ?-?

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OH! how pleasant are Young Lovers, When their Courtships first begin, And their faces oft discovers, The great pleasures they are in; When one seems to like the other, Hand in hand these lovers move, What sweet kisses they do smother And they pratle tales of Love. Just so Billy the Sailor Courted Mally, and she was as kind, For they had often kiss'd and sported, A[nd] [b]oth per[s]waded were in mind, She consented for to have [?] He made Vows to her again, He wou'd Wed if she'd not leave him, When he did return from Spain Then a piece of Gold was broken, And each other took a part, And these words by her was spoken, Billy thou hast won my heart. May the Heavens bless you thither, And your safe return again, Mallys your alone for ever, When you do return from Spain. Arm in arm they kis'd each other, And repeated Vows did make, Ever to love one another, But said Billy my heart does ake, Least in absence you should leave me, Then my heart will burst in twain, Curse on Mally if I deceive thee, But will wait till thou com'st from Spain. Billy a Gold'n Locket gave her, And beg'd of her to be true, Mally reply'd as I'm a Sinner, I will ne'er be false to you. Then they parted with Eyes weeping And he sail'd away for Spain, For two Years he's been a missing, But is now return'd again.
Several Letters he had sent her, From Portugale and Spanish shore With Tokens hoping wou'd content her Untill England he came o're, But no answer he received, Till with Admiral Leak he came, Then his heart was sorely grieved, Oh! that I had stay'd in Spain. For he found his sweet Heart Marry'd And he curst false Lovers all, Since his Mally now was carry'd, By her Husband to Black wall, He cry'd out then in Vexation, Now [?]nd I'll find, Where wild Beasts have more Compassion, Then deluding Women kind. But alas, he's sore tormented, And crys out I am undone, For my Soul is discontented, And I shall distracted run, Mallys talle and has deceiv'd me, Oh! ye Furies why d'ye stay, Of my Torment soon relieve me, Take my wretched Life away. Now he rents his Cloaths asunder, And into distractions run, In Bedlam to all Peoples wonder, This distracted Sailors gone, There in Links of Iron Chained, And in Straw alone does ly, Against Mally he exclaimed, For her wretched Perjury. Day and Night his Chains he rattles, As if Bedlam he'd pull down, Come my Sailors think of battles, And of Boaming Spanish Towns, Ho lo you Sir bedlam Porter, Bring false Mally here again, I will ram her in a Mortar And will shoot her into Spain.
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