Adventures and adventurers > Factor's garland, and princess' happy marriage

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Ha said, Noble Lady, I hava "ftnd naws to toll,
Th- old P.*:nce yno; fath'r and atKher’s .wK v/ell
And vour royal parer.rs this th-n^ ;o ’d,
In the b'md of wedlock: we both sha b join’d.
Per’aos. n-'btr Lad? you w mid nor a^ree
To marry a poor >an especi» iy ne.-
•Sn, were you a bcgyar, I would be ybur wife,
Be.cau c, wot-n jusr dyt^g, yon saved -u« ife!
1 ne’er shat' forgot tlr/t great tok 'n f level
1 Of a ! men now bi-e.-ith»«g, I pr.ze •• bee above,
ISmsv it is so order’d I’ *. w?i'- pie.-s’ l I vow,
A d glid my dev fuher these t-tings lo allow.
Pny srlt off y ur goods rhat vou save in store.
And give a!) y mr .*oney to those that are poor;
JAt l te us ne jogging wnh speed o’er the main*
For l long tor to see my deaf parents again.
This thing was soon done, and they sat ed away,
!In the ship hat her father sent for her convoy;
Bet ma- k ' bat was oc-ed or, rhe ocean wide,
T< deprive the Factor of his Ro.al Bride.
The Captain who conveyed fetsn ever the deep,
i One r/yh as the Far or was Ltd in his sieep,
Being unoer s-iil, over board did him throw,
(h ring, Now I shall have th;s young creature I know
There happ’ned to be a small island at hand.
To which this Factor swam as I understand.
And there I will leave him a while for to mourn,
And unto the ship now again will return.
Next morning then, soon as day-light did peep,
He ■aak’d the young Princess out of her sleep;
And said, Nobis- Lady, the Factor’s not here,
He’s fali’n over board and drowned I fear,