An excellent new song,
CALLED,
Billy's ANSWER
TO
Phillis's Complaint.
To a Pleasant and Delightful New Tune.
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WHat dismal cruel News is this I hear.
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that Phillis to the Sea is gone,
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And full resolved never to come here,
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all long of me a false and perjur'd Man,
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I chang'd my mind, and prov'd unkind,
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As she did find, which made her go,
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Sail on the Main, ne're to return again,
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Which now does fill my heart with grief & woe.
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O why did I kind Phillis so much wrong,
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who freely gave her heart to me,
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Besides, she was most beautiful and young,
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ay, and a Pattern of true Chastity,
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Yet to my love I false did prove,
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Which made her move out of my sight,
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But now my heart, since Phillis did depart,
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Will quickly from my body take its flight.
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But first I will on shipboard go with speed,
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and sail the Ocean round about,
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For Phillis now my very heart does bleed,
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I nere shall rest until I find her out,
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friends unto you I bid adieu,
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To England too i'll nere come more,
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Unless kind fate shew me my hapy Mate.
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That we may both return to th' English shore.
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Accordingly on ship-board Billy went
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to find his true Love once again,
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For without her he could have no content,
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but mind a storm rise near the Coast of Spain,
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As th' ship did go, the wind did blow
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Her too and fro, till she was sunk,
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But Billy he did swim upon the sea,
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By holding fast an empty chest or trunk.
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Another ship to Barsolona bound,
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as she was sailing on the sea.
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Billy upon a chest the seamen found,
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and took him up amongst their company,
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To th' place before they went on shore,
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Where Bill once more his Love did find,
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Her pardon he did beg upon his knee,
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And hop'd she would as formerly be kind.
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But Phillis straight did make him this reply.
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O you have been most false to me,
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You took my heart, but me you did deny,
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therefore I will believe no more of thee.
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This made him mad, then looking sad,
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He went to stab his perjured heart,
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But Phillis said, Oh hear an injured Maid,
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Ere you and I so cruelly do part.
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Then Phillis unto Billy thus did say,
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if I should take your word once more,
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I doubt when we to England come to stay,
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You'l Court another, as you did before,
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No no not I. Bill did reply,
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May Heaven deny me if I do,
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So here's my hand, my heart you do command,
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I cannot live without enjoying you.
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Then Phillis gave consent unto the bliss,
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and charged him to keep his Vow,
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And Billy gave to her a gentle kiss,
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saying I will always love as I do now,
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They did not stay, but straight away
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Come sailing they for fair England,
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And now in love do live like Turtle Dove,
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No Couple has more comfort in the Land
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