EBBA 37422
British Library - Bagford
| The Mariners Misfortune, / OR, / The Unfortunate Voyage of two Constant Lovers. / Being an Account of a faithful Seaman, who going to take his Farwel of his Sweetheart, she re- / solved come Life, or come Death, to Sail with him; and putting her self into Mans Appar- / rel, went the Voyage with him, but by distress of weather, coming home were cast away, / the constant Seaman having no other help, betook himself to swimming, and having got his / Sweetheart upon his back, swam till he was almost tyred, but was at last taken up by an / Algerine, who carryed them to Algiers, where being brought before the Governour, she / confessed her self to be a Female, which so astonished the Governour, that he in requital of / her constancy, set them both free, who are happily Arrived in England again. | |
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| Date Published | 1664-1706 ? |
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| Imprint | Printed for J. Blare at the Looking=Glass on London=Bridge. |
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| Collection | British Library - Bagford |
| Pages | 2.76 Page Verso, 2.77 Verso |
| Location | British Library |
| Shelfmark | C.40.m.10.(80.) |
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| Title | The Mariners Misfortune, / OR, / The Unfortunate Voyage of two Constant Lovers. / Being an Account of a faithful Seaman, who going to take his Farwel of his Sweetheart, she re- / solved come Life, or come Death, to Sail with him; and putting her self into Mans Appar- / rel, went the Voyage with him, but by distress of weather, coming home were cast away, / the constant Seaman having no other help, betook himself to swimming, and having got his / Sweetheart upon his back, swam till he was almost tyred, but was at last taken up by an / Algerine, who carryed them to Algiers, where being brought before the Governour, she / confessed her self to be a Female, which so astonished the Governour, that he in requital of / her constancy, set them both free, who are happily Arrived in England again. |
| Tune Imprint | Tune of, Souldiers Departure. |
| First Lines | A Seaman lov'd a Maiden pretty / and esteem'd her as his life, |
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| Notes | Printed on the recto of EBBA 37423, "THE / Winchester Weddi[n]g: / OR, / RALPH of Reading and Black BESS of the [G]reen." Cut apart and pasted onto two facing album sheets. |