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Perhaps ſhe will alter her mind for me,
And fall in love with a prentice boy.
Lal de, &c.
I bought her ribbons rings and gloves,
And I did convey them to my love;
She did accept them, ſhe was not ſhy,
Although I was but a prentice boy.
Lal de, &c.
Our ſhip being rigg’d ready to ſail,
With all our jolly ſhip’s company;
For to have a dance we all went away,
And I aſk’d my love for to go with me.
Lal de, &c.
She promiſed to go with me,
And to wait on me till I was free;
But her mother ſwears ſhe will her deſtroy,
If ſhe goes along with a prentice boy.
Lal de, &c.
When I got her to the company there,
My ſpirits being in good cheer:
And when I gave her the parting kiſs,
I ſtole her heart what think ye of this?
Lal de, &c.
When her old lover return’d from ſea,
She told him ſhe was engag’d with me,
So you may court whom you will for me.
For yon’s the boy when he gets free.
Lal de, &c.
Although you are a ſecond mate,
In my prentice boy I chooſe to wait,
I think it my pride and my only joy,