%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Seaman's Compass: / OR / A dainty new Ditty composed and pend, / The deeds of brave Seamen to praise and commend / Twas made by a Maid that to Gravesend did pass, / Now mark and you quickly shall hear how it was. Price, Lawrence 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 07/12/2021 37429

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R215661 1 The Tyrant hath stolen Bonny Sweet Robin; My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone The Tyrant Hath Stolen AS lately I travelled / towards Gravesend, Theres none but a Seaman / shall marry with me. British Library - Bagford Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 82 2: 83 The Seaman's Compass: / OR / A dainty new Ditty composed and pend, / The deeds of brave Seamen to praise and commend / Twas made by a Maid that to Gravesend did pass, / Now mark and you quickly shall hear how it was. The Seaman's Compass: OR A dainty new Ditty composed and penned, The deeds of brave Seamen to praise and commend Twas made by a Maid that to Gravesend did pass, Now mark and you quickly shall hear how it was. Price, Lawrence ?-? F. Coles, T. Vere J. Wright, and J. Clark.

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AS lately I travelled towards Gravesend, I heard a fair Damosel a Seaman commend And as in a Tilt-boat we passed along, In praise of brave Sea-men she sung this new Song: Come Tradesmen or Merchant, whoever he be Theres none but a Seaman shall marry with me. A Sea-man in promise is faithful and just, Honest in carriage and true to his trust:
Kinde in behaviour and constant in love, Is firm in affection as the Turtle Dove, Valiant in action in every degree There's none, etc. The Sea-men adventures their lives at the Seas Whilst Land-men on shore takes pleasure and ease, The Sea-men at all times their business must ply In Winter and Summer in wet and in dry.
From toyl and pains-taking they seldome are free, There's none, etc. Moreover i'de have you for to understand That Sea-men brings treasure and profit to Land Above and beneath ground for wealth they have sought And when they have found it to England 'tis brought With hazard of lives by experience we see Ther's none but a Sea-man shall marry with me.
SEa-men from beyond the Seas bring Silver & Gold With Pearls and rich jewels, most rare to behold With Silks and rich Velvets their credits to save, Or else you gay Ladies could not go so brave This makes my heart merry as merry may be There's none but a Sea-man shall marry with me. The Sea-men bring Spices, and sugar so fine Which serve the brave gallants, to drink with their wine With Lemmons & Oranges all of the best, To relish their pallats when they make a Feast, Sweet Figs, Prunes & Raysins by them brought home be There's none, etc. To comfort poor people The Seamen do strive And brings in maintenance to keep them alive As raw silk and Cotten wooll to Card and to spin And so by their labours their livings comes in: Most men are beholding to Sea-men we see With none but a Sea-man I married will be. The Mercer's beholding we know well enough For Holland, Lawn, Cambrick, and other gay stuff That's brought from beyond-seas by Sea-men so bold The rarest that ever mens eyes did behold, God prosper the Sea-men whereever they be There's none etc.
The Merchants themselves are beholding also To honest Sea-men that on purpose do go To bring them home profit from other strange Lands Or else their fine daughters must work with their hands, The Nobles and Gentry in every degree Are also beholding etc. Thus for Rich and poor men the Seamen does good And sometimes comes off with loss of much blood: If they were not a guard and a defence for our Land Our Enemies soon will get the upper hand. And then in a woful case straight should we be There's none etc. To draw to Conclusion and so make an end I hope that great Neptune my Love will befriend And send him home safely with health and with life, Then shall I with joyfulness soon be his wife You Maids, Wives & Widdowes that Sea-mens Loves be With hearts and with voices joyn prayers with me. God blesse all brave Seamen from Quick-sands & Rocks From losse of their blood and from Enemies Knocks From Lightning & Thunder and tempests so strong From Shipwrack and drownin[g] and all other wrong And they that to these words will not say Amen Tis pitty that they should ever speak word agen.
L.P. Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere J. Wright, and J. Clark.