The Saylors departure from his dearest Love,
Wishing that still (to him) shed constant prove,
She (in the second Part) doth thus reply,
Ere shed foom him depart, shel choose to die.
To a new Tune of, Adiew my pretty one.
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NOw I am bound to Seas,
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and from my Love must part,
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May ought my Dear displease,
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that lies so near my heart:
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Nor mourn my sweet for me,
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to perturbate thy mind;
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Since there no help can be,
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I must leave thee behind.
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Remember me on shore,
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as I thee on the main,
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So keep my love in store,
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till I return again.
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Poor Saylors must indure
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the stormes of Boreas blast,
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Of life no man is sure.
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while Seas do raging last.
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But when the storms are ore.
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that wind and tide serves well,
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We hast to kiss the shore
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where our true Lovers dwell.
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Remember me on shore, etc.
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When we are landed there,
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and come to greet our friends,
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Strange wonders we declare,
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how God us safe defends:
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Then Love (if thou so please)
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pray still for my success,
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And prosperous gale at Seas,
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to shield us from distress.
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Remember, etc.
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Our shipping shall be built,
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without the help of tree;
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The hardest flint shall melt,
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ere I prove false to thee;
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And though I be inforcd,
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to part thy company,
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My love bides undivorcd,
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and shall do till I die.
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Remember, etc.
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The fire shall freeze by kind,
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the snow shall flaming burnd;
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The rain shall turn to wind,
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or ere my love return.
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Young men and maidens all,
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that live in England wide,
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To witness I you call,
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how firm my love shall bide.
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Remember me, etc.
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The Mountains high shall fall
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beneath the Valleys deep,
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Ere I prove false at all,
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my promise so ill keep.
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And if I hold not true,
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to thee my gentle Dove,
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Let not mine eyes ere view,
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Earth, Aire, or heaven above.
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Remember, etc.
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The Fish shall seem to fly,
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yea Birds to Fishes turn,
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The Sea be ever dry,
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and Fire surcease to burn:
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When I turn false to thee,
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shall these things come to pass;
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But that will never be,
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nor yet to ever was.
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Remember, etc.
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Let no deluding tongue
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bereave me of my Love;
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Nor (sweet) do me such wrong,
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lest it my death should prove.
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Though seest I must away,
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our Ship lies under sail:
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And time for none will stay,
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God sends a happy gale.
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Remember me on shore;
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as I thee on the Main,
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So keep my love in store,
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till I return again.
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Her Answer to the Saylors wishes. The second Part,
To the same Tune.
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MUst thou depart my Dear,
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and leave me thus alone
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Twill cast me many a tear,
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though to thee it be unknown:
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But be assurd Ile pray,
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and to the Powers Divine,
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To prosper thee the way,
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where Fate shall now desig[ne].
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While I remember thee,
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and keep thy love in store:
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Do thou the like for me,
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on Sea or on the shore.
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O till thou dost return
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from off the Ocean Main.
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Full often I sh[a]ll mourn,
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In a lamenting strain:
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And when fierce winds arise
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or but contrary blow,
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My sighs and watery eyes,
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shall simpathize thy wo.
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Thus ile remember thee, etc.
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Each hour shall seem to me,
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in length (at least) a year,
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Till thy return, I see
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my joyes are filld with fear:
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For on the Seas, I kno,
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what sundry dangers be,
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Rocks, sands and many a foe,
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from which Lord keep thee free.
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Thus Ile, etc.
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I would I might but sail
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through surging Seas with thee,
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My heart would never faint,
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while thou wert near to me.
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Or that I could but hear
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thy voice, I should be well,
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But thoult not be so near,
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to hear or see thy Nell.
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Yet ile, etc.
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Though loth we be to part,
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yet since it seemes wee must;
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To Sea bear thou my heart,
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with whom its put in trust.
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And thine with me let rest,
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till thou returnst again,
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And each be doubly blest,
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by making one of twain.
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So ile, etc.
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Mean while my jem and joy,
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Ile kiss thee lovingly,
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Our hopes doth time destroy,
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would I could him deny.
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But time will comfort bring,
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though wee a time are crost:
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And Winter finds a Spring.
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restores what seemed lost.
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Yet ile, etc.
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Man. Farewell my Love, farewell
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ten thousand times adiew,
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My witty, pretty Nell,
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till my return to you.
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Maid. Farewell to thee Sweet-heart.
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That now to Seas art gone,
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With what great grief I part,
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to Lovers best tis known.
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Yet ile remember thee,
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and keep thy love in store,
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Do thou the like by me, etc.
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