Wit And Mirth: Or, Pills to Purge Melancholy: Being a Collection ..., volume 6
Wit And Mirth: Or, Pills to Purge Melancholy: Being a Collection ..., volume 6
Henry Playford
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A yGooQle gl 272 PiLLsA? Purge Melancholy: A BALLAD by the late ZonjT DORSET, when at Sea. &H35 ^^^P^^^ |^p=^tFg^^ ^ ^ -^^ SEk£ ^^E^^^^ To you fair Ladies now at Land^ We Men at Sea indite ; But first wou'd have you understand, How hard it is to write : .. The Muses now, and N^tune too, ,, We must implore to write to you ; With a Fa la, la, la, la, The Muses now, «S^•^. But Digitized by VjOOQ IC P I L L s A^ Purge Melancholy. 2 73 But tho' the Muses shoulcj bejdpd, And fill our empty Brain ; Ye...t if rough Neptune czxL^t tfie AWnd, . To rbuse iht Azure Main : Our Paper, Pens, and Ink and we, . Rowl up and down our Ships at Sea, With a Fa la, ^c Then if we write not by each Post, Think not that we're unkind ; . Nor yet conclude that we are lost, By Dutch^ by French^ or Wind, Our grief will find a speedier way, . The Tide shall bring them twice a day, JVitAaFa/a,kc. The King with wonder and surprize. Will think the Seas grown bold ; • For that the Tide does higher rise. Then e'er it did of old : But let hini know that 'tis our Tears, .
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