Love in Despair:
OR, THE
Virgin's Lamentation for her Love,
WHO
Was unfortunately Drowned near the English-
shore, on his Return from the West-Indies.
To the Tune of, The Ruined Virgin.
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YOu loyal Lovers all help me to moan,
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Who am so deep in thrall and left alone,
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The unkind hand of Fate,
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Has rob'd me of my Mate,
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In tears I will relate my Grief and Woe.
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Alas! why was I born this day to see?
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Since I am left forlorn, in Misery,
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In Tears my Life I'll spend,
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Because I've lost a Friend,
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Whose Love did me defend, from danger here.
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He was a Seaman bold, of Courage brave,
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That scorn'd to be controul'd, or once to have
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His Heart with fear conceal'd,
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When Danger was reveal'd,
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He'd rather die then yield to any Foe.
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No Man in Battle more valliant could be,
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When Cannons did rattle on the raging Sea,
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His Life he would expose,
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To fight his Country's Foes,
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For he was none of those that fear'd to die.
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But Neptune proves unkind, by conqu'ring the brave,
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As to my Grief I find, for in a Wave
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My dearest Love was drown'd,
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He being homeward bound,
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This does my Sences wound with Grief and Care.
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When first this dismal News to me was told,
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My Heart began to muse and waxed cold,
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Wishing in Heart this thing,
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That I had dy'd with him,
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Then had my Sorrows been all at an end.
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More Love and Constancy sure ne'er was shown,
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Then had my dearest Joy, for whom I moan,
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When Dangers him oppress,
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These words he did express,
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My Dear kind Heavens bless for evermore.
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Then was my Love by the Waves overcome,
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And laid for to sleep in his watery Tomb;
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No Passing-Bell was there,
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His Knell for to declare,
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Sea Nymphs and Fishes were his mourning Guess.
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Thus love and constancy lyes in the deep,
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For want of whose company I mourn and weep,
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Comfort I will have none,
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Since he is Dead and gone,
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But will remain alone till Death me take.
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In places where none frequent by the Sea-side,
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My Love for to lament there I'll abide,
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That I may ne're forget,
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What Dangers him bereft,
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Who was my constant Mate untill he Dy'd.
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