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1 What is greater Joy Oh How Pleasant Are Young Lovers What is greater Joy OH how pleasant are young Lovers, / When their Courtship first begin, Houghton Library Hazlitt EC65 Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 43 1: 44 The Distracted SAILOR. The Distracted SAILOR. The Distracted SAILOR. ?-?

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OH how pleasant are young Lovers, When their Courtship 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 smoother, and they prattle Tales of Love: Just so Bill the Sailor courted, Molly, and she was as kind, For they oft had kiss'd and sported, and both perswaded were in mind, She consented for to have him, he made Vows to her again, He would 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, Molly's your's alone for ever, when you do return from Spain- Arm in arm thy kiss'd each other, and repeated vows did make, Ever to love one another, but, said Bill, my heart does ake, Least in absence you should leave me, then my heart would burst in twain. Curse on Moll, if i deceive thee, but stay till thou com'st from Spain.
Bill a golden Locket gave her, and begg'd of her for to be true, Moll reply'd, As I'm a Sinner, I will ne'er be false to you, Then they parted with Eyes weping, and he sail'd away for Spain, For two Years he has been missing, but is now return'd again. Several Letters he had sent her, from Portugal and Spanish Shoar, With tokens hoping wou'd content her, till to England he came o're, But no Answer he received, till with Admiral Leak he came, Then his Heart was sorely grieved, O that i had staid in Spain. For he found his Sweet heart marry'd, and he curst false Lovers all, Since his Molly now was carried, by her Husband to Black Wall, He cried out then in vexation, Now some Newfound Land I'll find, Where wild Beasts have more Compassion, than deluding Woman kind, But alas he's sore tormented, and cries out, I am undone; For my Soul is discontented, and I shall distracted run, Molly's false, and has deceiv'd me, O ye Furies why ye stay: Of my Torments soon relieve me; take my wretched Life away.
Now he rends his Cloths asunder, and into Distraction run, In Bedlam to all Peoples wonder, this distracted Sailor's gone, There in Links of Iron chained, and in Straw alone does lye, Against Molly he exclaimed, for her wretched Perjury. Day and Night in Chains he rattles, as if Bedlam he'd pull down, Come my Sailors, think of Battles, and of storming Spanish Town, Holo, you Sir Bethlem Porter, bring false Molly here again, I will ram her in a Morter, and will shoot her into Spain.
Enter'd in the Stamp-Office ac cording to Act of Parliament. Sold by J. Cobb, in Plumb- Tree-Street, St. Giless, and A. Powel at the Bible in Long- Ditch, Westminster.