%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Seamans sorowful Bride. / See here the constant mournful Bride, / In sorrow doth complain; / For fear her joy and hearts delight, / Should ne'r return again. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 03/14/2016 34685

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R227358 1 Ah! Jenny Gin Jenny Gin Ah! Jenny Gin MY Love is on the Brackish Sea, / and I am on this side, and parts my Love and I. [with variation] Houghton Library Huth EBB65H Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 232 The Seamans sorowful Bride. / See here the constant mournful Bride, / In sorrow doth complain; / For fear her joy and hearts delight, / Should ne'r return again. The Seamans sorowful Bride. See here the constant mournful Bride, In sorrow doth complain; For fear her joy and hearts delight, Should ne’r return again. The Seaman's sorrowful Bride. See here the constant mournful Bride, In sorrow doth complain; For fear her joy and heart's delight, Should never return again. ?-? J. Deacon

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MY Love is on the brackish Sea, and I am on this side, Twould break a poor young creatures heart, that lately was a Bride: That lately was a joyful Bride, so pleasant to the eye, But Hollands Land, doth me withstand, and part my Love and I. The Love that I in heart have chose, I therewith am content, The floating Sea shall dryed be, [b]efore I will repent:
But cruel Fate my joys arrest, it cannot helped be, Whilst I do cry, most mournfully, fate parts my Love and me. O gentle Neptune be so kind, to send him back again, He ner will be out of my mind, that now hath crost the Main: Oh hapless Bride, so soon to loose the pleasure of thine eye, But rigid fate, my bliss doth hath and parts my Love and I.
No sleep shall give my troubled mind a comfortable hour, For while my Love is on the Main, fears do my joys devour: And ery blast that blows, I fear, my Love should drowned lye, But tis a grief, beyond relief, so Love for thee ile dye. Ah! cruel Fate, too much unkind, why dost thou serve me so? Give ease to my destressed mind, and banish all my woe: For I shall never be at rest, till I my Love do see, Then gentle wind, be sure be kind, ner part my Love and me. You sturdy Rocks be sure give way, and let my Love sail by, For if he should be made your Prey, in what a case were I: Or if the waves should cruel prove, which I ner hope to spy, I should be lost, and strangely crost, to part my Love and I. Blow wind and send a happy Gale, that he may home return, If thou but fill his prosperous Sail I need no longer mourn: My happiness will be compleat, when him I chance to see, Now I lament, in discontent, since Fate parts him and me. You powerful Stars that Mortals rule, mind but my sad complaint, And send me home my Love again, that now am like to faint: I sigh, I pant, I waste away, no pleasures can I see, Since my Delight, is out of sight, and fate parts him and me.
Now must I blame the cruel wind that sent my Love away, O fates, why were you so unkind, as not to let him stay: Just in the bud of all my joys, could you so cruel be, To banish hence, my Love, my Prince, and part my Love and me. Is it in vain to sigh and mourn, unhappy then am I, Or now because I am forlorn, must I in sorrow dye? No, no, I hope theres joys in store, that I may live to see, Though now opprest, I may be blest, Heavens bless my Love and me. The Seamans Answer. LEave off thy tears my only joy, since I am safe arrivd: Let not this grief my Love destroy, nor be of hopes deprivd; For Ile imbrace thee in my Arms, and fill thee with such bliss; That Venus with her dallying Charms, envies our happiness. Though I upon the Seas was tost, when absent from my Dear: Fearing each moment to be lost, yet this my comfort were: That I should safe again return, which now I find is true; And since I in Loves passion burn, I bid the Seas adieu. Now we will revel day and night, within each others Arms; In thee shall be my chief delight, Ile shield thee from all harms; Kindly thy body Ile imbrace, and ever constant be. No other joys shall ere take place, Ile live and dye with thee.
Printed for J. Deacon, in Guiltspur-street.