The Maydens of Londons brave adventures,
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A Boon Voyage intended for the Sea,
Some gone before, and some to follow:
Their Sweet-hearts are resolvd also
This noble Voyage for to go.
Because they hold their Love so dear,
As in this Ditty you shall hear.
Tune is, a Taylor is a man: Or, Wet and weary.
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COme all you very merry London Girls,
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that are disposed to Travel,
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Here is a Voyage now at hand,
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will save your feet from gravel,
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If you have shooes you need not fear
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for wearing out the Leather
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For why you shall on shipboard go,
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like Loving Rogues together,
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Some are already gone before
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the rest must after follow
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Then come away and do not stay
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Your guide shal be Apollo.
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Peg, Nell, and Sisse, Kate, Doll, and Besse
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Sue, Rachel, and sweet Sara
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one, Prudence & Grace have took their place
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with Debora, Jane, and Mary,
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Fair Winifright, and Bridget bright,
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sweet Rose and pretty Nany,
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With Ursely neat and Alice compleat
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that had the love of many
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All these brave Girls and others more
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conducted by Apollo,
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Have tane their leaves and are gone before
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And their Loves wil after follow.
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Then why should those that are behind
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slink back and dare not venture
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For you shall prove the Sea-men kind,
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if once the ships you enter
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You shall be fed with good strong fare
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according to the season
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Bisket salt-Beef, and English Beer
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and Pork well boyld with Peason
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And since that some are gone before
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the rest with Joy may follow
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To bear each other company
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Conducted by Apollo.
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When you come to the appointed place
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your minds you need not trouble
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For every groat that you got here
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you shall have three times double
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For there are Gold and Silver Mines
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and treasures much abounding,
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As plenty as New-Castle Coales
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at some parts may be founding,
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Then come away make no delay
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all you that mean to follow
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The Ships are ready bound to go
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Conducted by Apollo.
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The second part to the same Tune.
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FOr victuals when as you come there
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you shall have choice and plenty
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Pigs, Turkies, Geese, Cocks, Hens, and Ducks,
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and other fare most dainty,
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Also be sure that you shall have
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enough sold for your mony
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A good fat Capon for a groat
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and eighteen eggs a penny
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Then come brave Lasses come away,
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if you desire to follow,
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Your sisters that are gone before
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Conducted by Apollo.
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Thinne cloathing then may serve your [t]urn
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when as you do come thither,
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For there the Sun is hot enough,
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and very warm the weather,
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All that youle have to care for there
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is very little or nothing,
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For there is all things at cheap rates
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both meat and drink and cloathing
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Then come brave Lasses come away
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you need not fear to follow,
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Those that are newly gone I say
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Conducted by Apollo,
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If any of you have sweet-hearts,
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let that not greatly grieve you,
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Tis very like they shall be sent,
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soon after to relieve you,
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And when they come where as you are
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and sees your lovely faces,
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You wil rejoyce to meet them there,
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with kisses and imbraces
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Make haste away use no delay,
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conducted by Apollo
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If that the Maidens go before
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the Young men they will follow.
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The Reason as I understand
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why you go to that Nation,
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Is to inhabit that fair Land
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and make a new plantation
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Where you shall h[a]ve good ground enough,
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for Planting and for Tilling
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Which never shal be taken away,
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so long as you there are living;
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Then come brave lasses come away,
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conducted by Apollo,
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Although that you do go before,
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your sweet-hearts they will follow,
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The Young mens Resolution to follow their
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Sweet-hearts, and seek till they find them.
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Seeing our sweet-hearts are gone before
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great cause we have to mind them,
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And we are firmly now resolved
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to seek until we find them
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Weele crosse the curled Ocean main,
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our minds shall no way waver,
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Til we have found our Loves again,
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and got into their favor
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For since that they are gone before,
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with speed we will them follow
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For fear their foes should do them wrong,
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If they should misse Apollo,
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Sweet Neptune be our safe convey,
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and Jove we pray befriend us,
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That we our true loves may injoy,
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great Mars such Fortune send us,
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That no false Spaniard may betray,
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our loves to keep them from us,
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Then shall we meet with them once more
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according to our promise,
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For since that they are past away,
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we cannot chuse but follow
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Through fire or Water, heat or cold,
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Conducted by Apollo.
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Take courage now my noble hearts,
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let not Jack Spaniard Jeer us,
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If we but take each others parts,
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the Infidels will fear us,
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Tis neither Pagan, Turk, nor Jew,
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nor any proud Philistians,
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That can our English men subdue,
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nor wrong us that are Christians,
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Our Sweet-hearts they are gone before
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and wele make haste to follow
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For it is supposd they are bound to Sea,
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Conducted by Apollo.
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So now dear hearts we come, we come,
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thers nothing will dismay us,
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I hope there is no friend of ours,
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that will desire to stay us,
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Our forraign foes we do not fear,
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God and good Angels guide us,
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For you wele venture far and near
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what chance so ever betyde us,
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Through old America or Spain
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Conducted by Apollo
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Wele search to find you out again,
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so closely will we follow.
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