How could you promise love to me, Why did you fwear mine eyes were bright, How could you say my lips were sweet, And made the scarlet pale? And why did I, young witless maid, That face, alas! no more is fair, Those lips no longer red; Dark are mine eyes now clos'd in death, The hungry worm my fifter is, This winding fheet I wear, And cold and weary lasts our night Till that laft morn appear. But hark! the cock has warn'd me hence, A long and last adieu ! Come fee, falfe man, how low fhe lies That died for love of you. Now Now birds did fing, and morning fmile He hied him to the fatal place And stretch'd him on the green grass turf And thrice he call'd on MARG'RET's name, And thrice he wept full fore; Then laid his cheek to the cold earth, And word fpake never more. MALLET. WAS when the feas were roaring TW With hollow blafts of wind, A damfel lay deploring, All on a rock reclin'd: Wide o'er the foaming billows She caft a wishful look, Her head was crown'd with willows That trembled o'er the brook. Twelve months are gone and over Ah! what's thy troubled motion The merchant robb'd of treasure To the lofing of my dear? Should fome coaft be laid on you Where gold and diamonds grow, You'll find a richer maiden, But none that loves you fo. How can they say that Nature All All melancholy lying Thus wail'd fhe for her dear, When o'er the white waves stooping, Then like a lily drooping She bow'd her head and died. GAY. A LL in the Downs the fleet was moor'd, When black-eyed SUSAN came on board, If my sweet WILLIAM fails among your crew? WILLIAM, who high upon the yard The cord glides swiftly thro' his glowing hands, So So the sweet lark high pois'd in air O SUSAN, SUSAN, lovely dear, Change as ye lift ye winds, my heart shall be Believe not what the landmen fay, Who tempt with doubts thy constant mind, Yes, yes, believe them when they tell thee fo, If to fair India's coaft we fail, Thy eyes are seen in diamonds bright, Thus every beauteous object that I view, Wakes in |