The BRISTOL Bridegroom:
Or, The Ship-Carpenter's Love to the Mer-
chant's Daughter.
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YOU Loyal Lovers all draw near,
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a true Relation you shall hear,
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Of a young Couple who proved to be,
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a Pattern of true loyalty,
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A Merchant did in Bristol dwell,
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as many people know full well,
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He had a Daughter a beauty bright,
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in whom he placed his hearts delight,
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He had no child but only she,
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her Father loved her tenderly.
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Many to court her thither came,
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Gallants of worth Birth and Fame,
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Yet not withstanding all their love,
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a young Ship-Carpenter did prove,
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To be the master of her heart,
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she often said we'll never part,
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As long as life and qreath remain,
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your company i'll not refrain.
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No cursed gold nor silver bright,
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shall make me wrong my heart delight,
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Now when her Father came to know,
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his Daughter lov'd this young man so,
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He caused him to be sent to sea,
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to keep her from his company,
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Which when his Daughter came to hear,
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without thoughts of dread or feat,
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She dress'd herself in seamans hue,
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and after him she did pursue.
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Unto the Captain she did go,
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and said, right worthy sir 'tis so.
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You do want men I understand,
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i'm free to fight with heart and hand,
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The Captain straitway did reply,
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young-man your welcome heartily,
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A Guinea in her hand he gave,
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she passed for a seaman brave,
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Soon after this ship set sail,
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and with a fair and pleasant gale,
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But this ship-carpenter her dear,
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did little think his love so near,
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she then appeared for to be,
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a person of mean degree.
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With pretty fingers long and strait,
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she soon became the surgeons mate.
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PART. II.
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IT happened so that this same ship
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A storming of thee Town of Diepe,
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She lay at anchor something nigh,
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where cannon Bullets they do fly,
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Then the first man that wounded were,
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was this young bold ship carpenter.
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When drums beat and trumpets sound,
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he in his breast receiv'd a wound.
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Then to the surgeons care was he,
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brought down with speed immediately,
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Whereas the pretty surgeons mate,
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did courteoesly upon him wait,
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She drest the dismal wounded part,
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altho' the sight did peirce her heart.
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she then did use her utmost skill,
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to cure him with a right goodwill.
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she cured him in a little space,
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he often gazed upon her face,
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Surgeon said he such eyes as thine,
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did formerly my heart confine.
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If ever I live to go on shoar,
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and she be dead whom i adort.
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I will thy true companion be,
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and ne'er forsake thy company.
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If she be dead thus will i do,
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to the female sex i'll bid adleu.
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And ne'er will marry for her sake,
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but to the seas myself betake.
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PART. III.
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THE Merchants Daughter of Bristol who
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had to her love prov'd just and true
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When many storms were over blown,
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unto her love herself made known,
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The season of the year being past,
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this ship was homeward bound at last,
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When into Harbour she did get,
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the seaman all on shore were set,
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But yet all the whole ships crew,
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was not a soul among them knew,
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That they a woman had so near,
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untlll she told it to her dear,
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To whom she did these words unfold,
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not long ago, cries she you told,
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Me plainly that such eyes as mine,
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did formerly your heart confine.
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Then without any more ado,
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into his arms she instantly flew,
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And cries my love thou art my own,
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this I have done for the alone,
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His heart was touch'd with joy likewise,
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when as the tears stood in his Eyes.
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He said thou hast a veliant heart,
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and hast perform'd true lovers part
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Therefore without delay,
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he drest her like a lady gay.
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And then they weded were with speed
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as formerly they had agreed.
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PART. IV.
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THEN to her fathers house he went,
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and found him in much discontent
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He ask'd him for his daughter dear,
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which pierc'd her fathers heart to hear.
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He with a mournful sigh reply'd,
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i wish she'd in her cradle died.
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Then might i seen my darling death,
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when she had yielded up her breath,
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But now I ne'er shall see her more,
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my Jewel whom i did adore.
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O must unhappy Man was i,
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to part her from your company,
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Had i a Kingdom now in store,
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nay. had I that and ten times more
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I'd part with it her face to see,
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daughter would i had died for thee.
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The young Man hearing what he said.
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replies your daughter is not dead
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For you within a few hours space,
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shall surely see your daughters face,
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He rode as fast as he could hie,
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and brought her home immediatel,
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And set her in her fathers Hall.
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where on her bended knees she strait did fall.
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Her father was wite joy possess'd,
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his daughter then he kiss'd and bless'd.
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Thrice welcome home thou art to me
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once more dear Jewel, from the Sea,
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To him the truth she did relate.
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and how she'd been the surgeons mate,
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He then did smile and was much glad,
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and gave them all that e'er he had,
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She that was seaman and surgeons mate,
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reserved by the hands of fate;
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She now is made a lawful wife.
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and liveth free from care and strife,
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Young lovers now a pattern take,
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when you a solemn contract make,
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Stand to the same what e'er betide,
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as did this faithful loving Bride.
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